PHRASE 奏效;达到目的 If something does the trick, it achieves what you wanted.
Sometimes a few choice words will do the trick. 有时说几句尖酸刻薄的话就有人听了。
PHRASE 千方百计;浑身解数;所有的办法 If someone tries every trick in the book, they try every possible thing that they can think of in order to achieve something.
Companies are using every trick in the book to stay one step in front of their competitors. 各公司想方设法地保持比竞争者领先一步的优势。
PHRASE 灯光造成的幻觉 If you say that something is a trick of the light, you mean that what you are seeing is an effect caused by the way that the light falls on things, and does not really exist in the way that it appears.
Her head appears to be on fire but that is only a trick of the light. 她的头部看上去像是着火了,但那只是灯光造成的幻觉。
PHRASE 无所(不)知;无事(不)晓;把握住任何机会 If you say that someone does not miss a trick, you mean that they always know what is happening and take advantage of every situation.
When it comes to integrating their transport systems, the French don't miss a trick. 法国人从不放过任何整合其交通系统的机会。
PHRASE (行业)诀窍,门道,绝活 The tricks of the trade are the quick and clever ways of doing something that are known by people who regularly do a particular activity.
To get you started, we have asked five successful writers to reveal some of the tricks of the trade. 为了让你开始写作,我们邀请了 5 位成功作家向你透露一些写作秘诀。
PHRASE 故伎重演;耍老花招 If you say that someone is up to their tricks or up to their old tricks, you disapprove of them because they are behaving in the dishonest or deceitful way in which they typically behave.
I have no respect for my father who, having remarried, is still up to his old tricks. 我对父亲没任何敬意,他已经再婚,却依然喜欢耍老把戏。