- [countable]
a movement performed with care and skill 细致巧妙的移动；机动动作 a complicated/skilful manoeuvre 复杂的／熟练的移动 You will be asked to perform some standard manoeuvres during your driving test. 驾驶考试中会要求你做几个标准的机动动作。
Extra ExamplesThe pilot has to carry out a series of complex manoeuvres. 飞行员必须完成一系列复杂的机动动作。 Careful, this is a tricky manoeuvre. 小心，这是一个棘手的策略。 They attempted the manoeuvre five or six times. 他们尝试了五六次。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- complex
- complicated
- difficult
- …
- series
- carry out
- do
- execute
- …
- [countable, uncountable]
a clever plan, action or movement that is used to give somebody an advantage 策略；手段；花招；伎俩 diplomatic manoeuvres 外交策略 a complex manoeuvre in a game of chess 国际象棋中复杂的应对套路 The amendment was somehow introduced by political manoeuvre. 该修正案是通过某种政治手段提出的。
Extra ExamplesHer withdrawal from the contest was a tactical manoeuvre. 她退出比赛是一个战术策略。 It was difficult to keep track of her political manoeuvres. 很难跟踪她的政治策略。 She defended her latest manoeuvre in a letter to the press. 她在给新闻界的一封信中为自己最近的策略进行了辩护。 This could be a clever pre-election manoeuvre. 这可能是一个聪明的选举前策略。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- brilliant
- strategic
- tactical
- …
- use
- carry out
- execute
- …
- fail
- by a/the manoeuvre
- freedom of manoeuvre
- room for manoeuvre
- manoeuvres[plural]
military exercises involving a large number of soldiers, ships, etc. 军事演习；作战演习 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- military
- strategic
- tactical
- …
- carry out
- conduct
- execute
- …
- battalion
- brigade
- force
- …
- be on manoeuvres
- go on manoeuvres
Word Originmid 18th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘tactical movement’): from French manœuvre (noun), manœuvrer (verb), from medieval Latin manuoperare from Latin manus ‘hand’ + operari ‘to work’.
Idioms
freedom of/room for manoeuvre
the chance to change the way that something happens and influence decisions that are made 改变事态的机会；回旋余地 Small farmers have limited room for manoeuvre. 小农的回旋余地有限。
Extra ExamplesThe economic conditions are restricting the bank's freedom of manoeuvre. 经济状况限制了银行调整策略的自由度。 The government has very little room for manoeuvre on this issue. 在这个问题上政府没有多少回旋的余地。