英语释义

• the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down;

  "the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness"

片语

caginess小心；狡诈

subtilty狡诈；微妙；聪明

英汉例句

• Mr Osborne's elusiveness would matter less, were the gap between his public profile and his influence smaller.

  如果奥斯本先生的公共形象和他的影响力没有如此显着的差异的话，他的不为人知也就不那么重要了。

• Embedded in this short history is all the elusiveness of human identity;

  上述简短的历史回顾说明，準确识别人类身份并不容易；

• He spent more time and energy avoiding the world, it was sometimes said, than most people do in embracing it, and his elusiveness only added to the mythology growing up around him.

  人们有时会说，他花了比大多数人拥抱世界更多的时间和精力去逃避它，他的难以捉摸只是更增加了他的神秘。

• Hence the strange facelessness, transparency, and elusiveness of power, hence the blandness of its language, the anonymity of its decisions.

  于是，这权力令人奇怪地面目模糊，没有形体，令人无法捉摸，它的语言平淡无味，它的决定不知由谁作出。

• Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel;

  一个好玩欲擒故纵、藏头露尾手腕的女人，早晚受到报应，自食其果，让原来对她倾心相与的男人鄙视；

• Such elusiveness is an anomaly in the gear-fanatical global soccer culture that feeds the merchandising frenzy surrounding the Cup every four years.

  这样的躲躲藏藏在热衷运动装备的世界足球文化中是个异数，而正是这种文化推动着围绕着四年一度世界杯而展开的销售热潮。

• Given the elusiveness of a perfect fit, you can expect that some will be cheered by your appointment, while others may mount a quiet — or not-so-quiet — opposition.

  由于没有所谓的「不二人选」，你可以料到有的人会为你的任命欢呼雀跃，而有的人却会在暗地里(或者大张旗鼓地)表示反对。

相似词

evasive逃避的；托辞的；推托的

fugitive逃亡者；难捕捉之物

slippery滑的；狡猾的；不稳定的