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a movement performed with care and skill 細致巧妙的移動；機動動作 a complicated/skillful maneuver 複雜/熟練的操作 You will be asked to perform some standard maneuvers during your driving test. 你將被要求在駕駛考試中進行一些標準動作。
Extra ExamplesThe pilot has to carry out a series of complex maneuvers. 飛行員必須進行一系列複雜的機動操作。 Careful, this is a tricky maneuver. 小心，這是一個棘手的策略。 They attempted the maneuver five or six times. 他們嘗試了五六次。
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a clever plan, action or movement that is used to give somebody an advantage 策略；手段；花招；伎倆 diplomatic maneuvers 外交策略 a complex maneuver in a game of chess 國際象棋比賽中的複雜動作 The amendment was somehow introduced by political maneuver. 修正案是通過某種政治手段引入的。
Extra ExamplesHer withdrawal from the contest was a tactical maneuver. 她退出比賽是一種戰術策略。 It was difficult to keep track of her political maneuvers. 很難跟蹤她的政治策略。 She defended her latest maneuver in a letter to the press. 她在給新聞界的一封信中爲自己最近的策略進行了辯護。 This could be a clever pre-election maneuver. 這可能是一個聰明的選舉前策略。
- maneuvers[plural]
military exercises involving a large number of soldiers, ships, etc. 軍事演習；作戰演習 - on maneuvers
The army is on maneuvers in the desert. 軍隊正在沙漠中進行演習。
- on maneuvers
Idioms
freedom of/room for maneuver
the chance to change the way that something happens and influence decisions that are made 改變事態的機會；回旋餘地 Small farmers have limited room for maneuver. 小農的回旋餘地有限。
Extra ExamplesThe economic conditions are restricting the bank's freedom of maneuver. 經濟狀況限制了銀行的操作自由。 The government has very little room for maneuver on this issue. 政府在這個問題上沒有多少回旋的餘地。