v.哄；誘騙；靈巧慢慢地做

The clerk is always able to coax the customers into good humor. 那個售貨員總是能夠把顧客哄得高高興興的。

Mother ran after me, murmuring fine words to coax me. 母親在后面小跑著，嘴里還在不斷地說著好話哄我。

I've come back to coax a respectable sum of money out of an aged woman who happens also to be my mother. 我回來的目的，是從一個老太婆手上誘騙一筆數(shù)目可觀的金錢，她碰巧是我母親。