sleight

n.
1. artifice,craft,trick,cunning contrivance 技巧，手腕，把戏，巧计。
△ Mac.3.5.26: “distilled by magicsleights，”用魔术的手法加以提炼。
2. trickery,cunning 诡计，狡诈。
△3H.VI.4.2.19:“That as Ulysses and stout Diomede / With sleightand manhood stole to Rhesus’ tents”，(Ulysses andDiomedes are identified with sleight and manhood re-spectively.)就像尤利西斯和勇敢的狄俄墨得斯靠着巧计和勇气悄悄溜进瑞索斯的篷帐。

sleight[slait]

n.技巧，手法
‖ sleight of hand戏法