| 单词 | dupe |
| 释义 | dupe I. 1. 2. < he that hates truth shall be the dupe of lies — William Cowper > < with the same mental rigidity that made him a dupe to communism — Bradford Smith > II. < refuses to be duped by his foiled lover's frenzies — Karl Polanyi > Synonyms: < men in high positions are as gullible and as easily duped as the rest of us — New Statesman & Nation > < hunters bent on duping a wild turkey gobbler — Allen Rankin > gull implies the great credulousness of the one imposed upon and generally made a laughingstock of < “good people” they call them, because they are easily gulled in the matter of weights and measures — Norman Douglas > < Barnum knew the American public loved to be gulled. It was a shame not to take the money. His genius consisted in knowing how to swindle them — W.L.Phelps > < could not tell … whether he was enlightened by fact or gulled by pretense — F.L.Paxson > befool usually stresses no weakness in the victim nor does it suggest very strongly an intent to delude on the part of the agent, stressing rather the victim's being made foolish < innocent philosophic critics, too easily befooled by words — Havelock Ellis > < a world long befooled by false messiahs and enslaved by false loyalties — John Bright †1889 > < pictures supplant one another so swiftly as to befool the eye with the illusion of continuity — S.H.Adams > trick stresses an intent to delude or deceive, by strategem, ruse, wiles, or fraud, not necessarily implying a base end, suggesting strongly the use of craft or cunning < it enables some lawyers to trick us into bringing in the wrong verdict — W.J.Reilly > < his accidental abandonment, which Sam never forgot, but which his recollection tricked him into placing at the earlier date of 1839, as if to heighten the pathos — Dixon Wecter > < never recommended it to my students because I knew they would suspect me of trying to trick them into reading it — A.W.Long > hoax in one sense implies the use of trickery for fun or as a demonstration of someone else's gullibility; in another it suggests a fraud, often on a large scale, intended to deceive even the most skeptical, usually to one's own advantage < he was flawed with impish faults. He hoaxed poor Rafinesque into solemn belief in the “red-headed swallow”, concocted for his benefit, and even got him to accept drawings of imaginary fishes and publish them as new species — D.C.Peattie > < a get-rich-quick scheme intended to hoax the public > hoodwink often stresses a deliberate confusing of another so as to blind him to the truth, and often a self-delusion arising from an inability to distinguish false from true < injures the interests of whatever nation is hoodwinked by the lie — Lucius Garvin > < since she'd hoodwinked your uncle, she thought she could pull the wool over my eyes, too — Kenneth Roberts > < hoodwinked by a simple political trick > bamboozle usually implies the use of out-and-out humbug or illusion or a transparent cajolery, though it may often be interchanged with trick, hoax, or hoodwink, being generally less fixed in its implications < we circus people are scoundrels, we do all sorts of tricks to bamboozle the world — Eduard Bass > < is it not a technique for persuading people that they themselves have chosen what has been dexterously palmed off on them? And that is to add insult to injury; you not only manipulate people but also bamboozle them — Walter Moberly > III. |
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