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单词 deception
释义
deception
(dɪseən )
Word forms: deceptions
variable noun
Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.
You've been the victim of a rather cruel deception.
Synonyms: trick, lie, fraud, cheat  
Quotations:
Deceive boys with toys, but men with oathsLysander
O what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Walter ScottMarmion
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the timeascribed to Abraham Lincoln
One may smile, and smile, and be a villainWilliam ShakespeareHamlet
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving othersDuc de la RochefoucauldMaxims
Collocations:
deliberate deception
Fireworks that were not fireworks but computer-generated graphics, for example - a deliberate deception that may have been harmless, but was a deception nonetheless.
Times, Sunday Times
This amounts to a deliberate deception by omission.
Times, Sunday Times
Questions about the deliberate deception about the case for war would hover over it all.
Times, Sunday Times
It reveals 'at best economic illiteracy and at worst deliberate deception' by government.
Times, Sunday Times
A medical tribunal ruled his actions were a 'deliberate deception'.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 欺骗
Japanese: 欺くこと
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