bilk
bilk 英 [bɪlk] 美 [bɪlk]
vt. 欺骗，诈骗；使受挫折；赖帐 n. 诈骗；骗子；赖帐
进行时:bilking 过去式:bilked 过去分词:bilked 第三人称单数:bilks 名词复数:bilks
- Ever paid a restaurant bill only to discover they charged you for stuff you never had? What they did was bilk you — cheat you out of money that was justly yours. Shady companies are forever bilking their investors.
- 请先登录
- vt. 欺骗，诈骗；使受挫折；赖帐
- n. 诈骗；骗子；赖帐
-
1. Some local officials who used regulations to bilk the public have been dealt with harshly.
一些利用法规蒙骗公众的地方官员已经受到严厉的处罚。
-
2. But the deal is done, and perhaps it doesn't completely bilk Mr Assange out of electronic rights.
但是这个交易已经完成，或许阿桑奇以后还有机会得到部分的电子书权.
-
3. Then they make an ebook to bilk even more money from the technique .
然后他们做出电子书，以诈骗甚至更多的钱，从技术。
- bilk (v.) 1650s, from or along with the noun (1630s), first used as a cribbage term; as a verb, "to spoil (someone's) score." Origin obscure, it was believed in 17c. to be "a word signifying nothing;" some sources suggest it is a thinned form of balk "to hinder." Meaning "to defraud" is first recorded 1670s. Related: Bilked; bilking.
- 请先登录
0 个回复