hoodwink
英 ['hʊdwɪŋk]
美['hʊdwɪŋk]
- vt. 蒙蔽；欺骗；遮眼
词态变化
第三人称单数: hoodwinks;过去式: hoodwinked;过去分词: hoodwinked;现在分词: hoodwinking;
助记提示
1. Hoodwink [16] originally meant literally 'cover someone's eyes with a hood or blindfold so that they could not see'.
中文词源
hoodwink 欺诈，欺骗
hood,兜帽，wink,眨眼，摇摆。比喻用法。
英英释意
- 1. influence by slyness
- 2. conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end;
- "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
英文词源
- hoodwink (v.)
- 1560s, "to blindfold," from hood (n.1) + wink; figurative sense of "mislead, deceive" is c. 1600. Related: Hoodwinked; hoodwinking.
实用场景例句
- People expect others to be honest, which is why conmen find it so easy to hoodwink people.
- 人们认为别人是诚实正直的，所以骗子很容易行骗得逞。
柯林斯例句
- He could hoodwink him all right.
- 他完全可以把他骗了.
英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- He is an easy person to hoodwink.
- 他是个容易受骗的人.
互联网
- That past wound, will momentarily remind, be not suffered again by love, do not hoodwink.
- 那过去的伤, 随时会提醒, 别再被爱情所折磨, 不要被蒙蔽.
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