It is a game of patience and cunning, but a loss can result in death.

这耐心与机巧游戏，而稍有慎便会命归西天。

Vimini was obviously quite pleased with her guile.

维米尼显然颇为自己机巧沾沾自喜。

I'd never heard him speak in that lambent tone before. Usually, it was I who teetered on the fringes of propriety.

我从来没听过他用这种机巧语气说话。通常，我那个在得体与否边缘踉踉跄跄人。

Without being noticed he sprayed the motion and heat sensor with a thin layer that would prove to be an ingenious but simple hack that would stop any heat from reaching it the next night.

在现情况下，他在运动和热传感器上喷了层薄薄东西，后续证明这种机巧而简单黑客技术，可以在第二天晚上阻止任何热量传达到传感器上。