cagey是什么意思？

cagey

英[ˈkeɪdʒi] 美[ˈkedʒi]

• adj. <口>小心的，狡猾的，吞吞吐吐的，机灵的；

副词：cagily;

例句

• She’s very cagey about her past life. 她对自己过去的生活讳莫如深。
• He was cagey , cagy about speaking of it. 他不太想说那件事.
• The cagey fox could not be easily trapped by the farmer. 那只狡猾的狐狸不会轻易落入农夫的陷阱.
• Tony is very cagey about his family. 托尼对自己家的事讳莫如深。
• He is cagey about what he was paid for the business. 他对自己在这桩买卖中所得的报酬不愿多提。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  讳莫如深的;守口如瓶的
  If you say that someone is being cagey about something, you mean that you think they are deliberately not giving you much information or expressing an opinion about it.
  例句
  He is cagey about what he was paid for the business. 他对自己在这桩买卖中所得的报酬不愿多提。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  <口>小心的,不表态的
  She’s very cagey about her past life. 她对自己过去的生活讳莫如深。
  狡猾的
  The cagey fox could not be easily trapped by the farmer. 那只狡猾的狐狸不会轻易落入农夫的陷阱。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;
  "a cagey lawyer""too clever to be sound"
  2. characterized by great cautious and wariness;
  "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer""chary of the risks involved""a chary investor"