- 在子女小時不應對他們過於苛吝。否則會使他們變得卑賤,甚至投機取巧,以至墮入下流,即使後來有了財富時也不會正當利用。
The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty.
- 這位拳擊冠軍深曉拳擊中投機取巧的所有竅門,他知道很多傷害對手並使其亂陣腳的方法。
The champion knows all the tricks of the boxing trade; he knows many ways to hurt his opponent and to get him mixed up.
- 宣傳的模式是投機取巧的,詭辯是可惡性的。
The modes of propaganda are opportunistic and the polemics can be vicious.
- 人們指責他在商業上投機取巧。
He was accused of commercial opportunism.
- 史密斯先生在股票市場上投機取巧,發了大財。
Mr Smith made a fortune by wheeling and dealing on the stock market
- 史密斯先生在股票市場上投機取巧,發了大財。
Mr Smith made a fortune by wheeling and dealing on the stock market.
- 投機取巧者用不正當手段謀求財富及社會地位者
One that attempts to gain wealth and social position by unscrupulous means.