2TRICK/DECEIVEto persuade or trick someone into doing something 说服;欺骗,哄骗〔某人做某事〕
beguile somebody into doing something
He was beguiled into buying another copy of her book.
他经劝诱又买了她的一本书。
3.literaryDL to do something that makes the time pass in an enjoyable way 轻松地消磨〔时间〕
Examples from the Corpus
beguile• Therefore you can happily build word pictures with which to beguile and captivate an audience.• All her life she had been beguiled by physicalbeauty in men and in women.• That does not suggest the outrage that a perusal of Hansard might beguilereaders into expecting.• They beguiled the hours away on a rowboat.• The sea had been blue and calm, beguiling the unwary.• a slicksalesman who beguiles unwary investors