bamboozle
bamboozle 英 [bæmˈbu:zl] 美 [bæmˈbuzəl]
vt. 欺骗；使迷惑
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- To bamboozle is to hoodwink, lead by the nose, or pull the wool over someone's eyes — you're tricking or fooling them.
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- vt. 欺骗；使迷惑
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1. bamboozle has nothing at all to do with wooden drinking cups.
bamboozle和木制酒杯完全没有关系。
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2. Certainly, the strident promoters of globalisation – politicians, big businessmen, and journalists – will have to work much harder now to bamboozle their audiences.
当然，全球化的发起人——政治家、大商人和新闻记者——可能现在要更努力地工作去欺骗他们的听众。
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3. Perhaps Paulson and the administration believed that they could bamboozle Americans into doing whatever they asked.
也许保尔森和政府相信他们可以迷惑美国人，让他们按照其要求来做。
- bamboozle (v.) "to cheat, trick, swindle," 1703, originally a slang or cant word, of unknown origin. Perhaps Scottish from bombaze, bumbaze "confound, perplex," or related to bombast, or related to French embabouiner "to make a fool (literally 'baboon') of." Related: Bamboozled; bamboozler; bamboozling. As a noun from 1703.
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