a way of doing something or of getting something by cheating somebody 诡计；骗术 She tried to think of a ruse to get him out of the house. 她试图用计让他走出房子。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clever
- elaborate
- ruse by somebody
Word Originlate Middle English (as a hunting term): from Old French, from ruser ‘use trickery’, earlier ‘drive back’, perhaps based on Latin rursus ‘backwards’.