0 to persuade someone gently to do something or go somewhere, by being kind and patient, or by appearing to be -- 哄勸；哄騙；勸誘
Perhaps you could coax your father into taking you to the station. 也許你能花言巧語說服父親帶你去車站。
He has some information I want, so I'm going to try to coax it out of him over a drink. 他知道一些我想要的消息，所以我要設法在喝酒時從他那裡套出來。
A mother was coaxing her reluctant child into the water. 一位母親正在哄勸不情願的孩子下水。
a coaxing voice 誘哄的口氣
They were in no way coaxed by the military.
Where the moderates coaxed, appeased and conciliated, the radicals preferred to cajole, to threaten and to force.
Here we concentrated on whether the infant could be coaxed into giving the spatula to the stranger, and simply rated whether this occurred.
This means that if central guidelines are to be implemented, lower levels of government must be coaxed or forced to comply.
Enmeshed family processes that emotionally pull or coax children into family problems may amplify the impact marital conflict has on children's sense of security.
With regard to agricultural biotechnology, institutions and incentives must be developed to coax private companies to focus their efforts on poor developingcountry farmers.
The former is the more "archaeological," in that researchers have not tried to coax particular pattern productions.
He gracefully coaxes us to abandon a cherished belief: that our actions revolve around willfulness within the conscious universe of the brain/mind.
