词为我用 - hoodwink

词汇释义

hoodwink UK  /ˈhʊd.wɪŋk/ US  /ˈhʊd.wɪŋk/TEM8IELTS    GRE

verb, If someone hoodwinks you, they trick or deceive you.欺诈，哄骗

外刊例句

1. Intellectual capital is also hard to pin down, since employees leave companies whenever they like, taking it all with them. Soft measures, if required by the authorities, could end up being used to hoodwink investors.(The Economist)

2. In particular, a section on "transfer mispricing"—trade between related parties, such as two companies in a multinational group, designed to hoodwink tax authorities or manipulate markets was removed after the OECD's tax division complained.(The Economist)

3. Though he was aware of the stratagems mountebanks used to hoodwink the gullible, Crookes was unable to retain a healthy scepticism and indeed became infatuated with Florence Cook, a teenage medium.(The Economist)

4. At least one woman died. To an extent, the act seems to reinforce the point that endless propaganda has been making: that this is an evil cult whose leaders hoodwink ordinary people into harming themselves.(The Economist)

5. The complaint also claims that Vale feigned interest in buying assets from Rio, months after the Brazilian group had begun secret negotiations with BSGR, in order to hoodwink Rio into showing it confidential information about Simandou's geology.(The Economist)

6. Successive Greek governments have managed to hoodwink the European Union over the size of the country's budget deficit and its public debt by blaming their predecessors and then promising to do better.(The Economist)

7. He has spoken out strongly against the Falun Gong, condemning the strange spiritual group as a "heretical cult to hoodwink people". Strong language has often been used by the Communists against the Catholic church.(The Economist)

8. A recent study found that 25% of putative cod or haddock bought from fishmongers and take-away restaurants were not even the right species.Fishermen, however, may not be able to hoodwink consumers for much longer.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

hoodwink people

词汇来源

1560s, "to blindfold, blind by covering the eyes," from hood (n.1) + wink (n.); figurative sense of "blind the mind, mislead, deceive by disguise" is c. 1600. Related: Hoodwinked; hoodwinking.

近义词

bamboozle, beguile, bluff, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, hoax, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, trick

反义词

undeceive, debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask, disclose, divulge, tell, unveil,

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