2.[countableC]TRICK/DECEIVE a trick used to deceive someone 诡计
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artifice• This is not wild, uncontrollednature, but greenery as artifice and symbol.• Though he deceived the beholder into taking his artifice for reality, Zeuxis practised an idealist art.• What is now considered natural is the result of learned artifice.• However, there is no copying, no artifice.• Not that she seekspedestals; there seems no artifice about her.• These works, in some way, seem timeless and devoid of artifice.• Marsha Hunt and Thulani Davis have no need for this kind of artifice.• The documentaryhighlights the difference between Warren's real life and the artifice of her stage shows.• Mrs Tucker was a marvelously candidlady, not given to artifice.
Originartifice
(1600-1700)FrenchLatinartificium, from artifex“skilled worker”, from ars ( → ART1) + facere“to make”