foist
foist 英 [fɔɪst] 美 [fɔɪst]
vt. 偷偷插入；混入；蒙骗；硬卖给；采用欺骗手段出售；把…强加于
进行时:foisting 过去式:foisted 过去分词:foisted 第三人称单数:foists 名词复数:foists
- Did your parents foist your baby sister on you when they went out? It means they forced her on you. Anything — a person or object or idea — can be foisted if it's done by force upon an unwilling party.
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- vt. 偷偷插入；混入；蒙骗；硬卖给；采用欺骗手段出售；把…强加于
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1. Elites in the media and our political system are now attempting to foist the same responsibility to those camping in Zuccotti Park.
媒体和政治体制内的精英们现在打算把这个责任推到那些在祖科蒂公园露营的人们身上。
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2. For the biggest beneficiaries of ratings have not been long-term bond investors but the Wall Street firms that used the system to foist misrated debt on them.
因为评级的最大受益人并非长期债券投资者，而是利用这套系统将错误评级的债务转嫁到投资人身上的华尔街公司们。
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3. The scientific endeavour itself is founded on values which natural selection would have seemed unlikely to foist on a bunch of violent, gregarious upright apes.
科学的努力的本身就是基于这样一种价值观上-自然选择似乎不会强加于这么一群暴力的，群居的直立行走的大猩猩上。
- foist (v.) 1540s, probably from Dutch vuisten "take in hand," from Middle Dutch vuist "fist" (see fist (n.)). Earliest sense was cheating at dice by concealing a loaded one in the palm of the hand with the intention of introducing it into play; general meaning "introduce surreptitiously, work in by a trick" is from 1560s. Related: Foisted; foisting.
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