cagey

英 [ˈkeɪdʒi]

美 [ˈkeɪdʒi]

adj.  守口如瓶的; 讳莫如深的

BNC.23902 / COCA.25727

牛津词典

adj.

• 守口如瓶的；讳莫如深的
  not wanting to give sb information
  1. Tony is very cagey about his family.
     托尼对自己家的事讳莫如深。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 讳莫如深的;守口如瓶的
  If you say that someone is beingcageyabout something, you mean that you think they are deliberately not giving you much information or expressing an opinion about it.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• characterized by great caution and wariness
  1. a cagey avoidance of a definite answer
  2. chary of the risks involved
  3. a chary investor
  Synonym:cagychary
• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
  1. a cagey lawyer
  2. too clever to be sound
  Synonym:cagycannyclever

双语例句

• Doting audiences have seen Zhao grow from elfin youth to cagey comedian.
  喜爱赵薇的影迷观？看着她从淘气的少女成长为狡黠的喜剧演员。
• Impossibility: The Political Position of the Post-Marxist Ideological Trend; Our politics are debilitated by the virus of cagey noncommitment.
  不可能性：后马克思思潮的政治立场我们的政治立场减弱是受谨守中立之害。
• The banks have even grown cagey about lending to each other.
  银行已经更加谨慎的把资金相互转借。
• The Turk had suddenly become cagey, perhaps he knew that the family button men of Clemenza and Tessio were ranging far and wide over the city in an attempt to pick up his trail.
  那个“土耳其人”也警觉起来，也许他发觉克莱门扎和忒希奥在全市撤下了天罗地网，企图查清他的行踪。
• Application of the system in judgement practice, we should be active and cagey, distinguish common error and fatal error, notice the method of error and muff counteraction.
  审判实践中，适用过失相抵制度时应注意积极、慎重适用该制度，注意区分一般过失与重大过失，注重过失相低的方法。
• He was biting his finger-nails, as was his habit when he was being cagey.
  他咬着手指甲，这是他不愿明确表态时的习惯动作。
• It made sense to be cagey, even though crawling while carrying tools and explosives was awkward and uncomfortable.
  还是小心谨慎点为妙，尽管带着工具和炸药在地上爬，行动不便而且很不舒服。
• The cagey fox can not be easily trap by the farmer
  那只狡猾的狐狸不会轻易落入农夫的陷阱
• He was cagey, cagy about speaking of it.
  他不太想说那件事。
• Federer, 27, was cagey on exactly when the baby is due, saying only in the summer.
  27岁的费德勒没有透露孩子确切的预产期，只是说在今年夏天。