N-COUNT A ploy is a way of behaving that someone plans carefully and secretly in order to gain an advantage for themselves. 计策; 手段
Christmas should be a time of excitement and wonder, not a cynical marketing ploy.
圣诞节应该是激动人心的奇妙时刻,而不是自私牟利的营销计谋。
Some consider it an election ploy. But other surveys show the majority of French believe it is a useful conversation.
VOA: standard.2009.12.30
And so it's an understandable ploy on Milton's part that he needs to vilify Shakespeare by identifying that great poet, his older contemporary, with Comus.
所以就弥尔顿而言,是一个可理解的事,他需要通过认同那伟大的诗句来贬低莎士比亚,用Comus来压倒比他年纪较大的同时代人。
This is simply a ploy to show the diplomatic community that the EPRDF is compromising with parties.
VOA: standard.2009.11.01
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