汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 明修棧道,暗渡陳倉
lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
The metaphor uses an illusion to confuse the other person, but actually has other intentions
比喻用一种假象迷惑对方,实际上却另有打算。
míng xiū () zhàn dào àn () chén () cāng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

你明修栈道我暗渡陈仓咱各显其能。

You're moving one way and I'm planning my way.

而盘面,分明就是明修栈道,暗渡陈仓

The disk, clearly is repairing the surreptitious.

这帮孩子暗渡陈仓,说是补课竟然去打游戏了。

The children cheated. They said they were going to a rescheduled class, but they played computer games instead.

而犯罪分子又是如何暗渡陈仓将大量的组装硬币地换的呐?

How does someone inconspicuously redeem tons of reassembled COINS?

乐购计划中的开店速度和暗渡陈仓的行动,是源于零售业的高风险。

The secrecy and the speed with which Tesco is expected to open its new stores points to the risks.

这个趋势正在缓慢的迫使美国大学改变他们的教育体制,雇佣中国那些善于“暗渡陈仓”的留学代理机构,并且改善他们的英语培训项目。

The trend is slowly forcing American colleges to change their teaching system, hire "covert" admissions agents in China, and beef up their English language programs.

米兰城没有人留心“暗渡陈仓”的古训,而韦斯利·斯内德在周五登上了从马德里飞来的飞机,并于一天后就进入了何塞的首发名单。

Nobody at Milan heeded the cries of "look behind you" as Wesley Sneijder waltzed off a plane from Madrid on Friday and straight into Jose's starting line-up a day later.