swindle
swindle 英 [ˈswɪndl] 美 [ˈswɪndl]
n. 欺诈；骗局 vt. 诈骗；骗取 vi. 诈骗
进行时:swindling 过去式:swindled 过去分词:swindled 第三人称单数:swindles 名词复数:swindles
- To swindle is to cheat or steal. You can swindle money, goods, ideas, and anything else that can be stolen, but be careful, because someone can also swindle you.
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- n. 欺诈；骗局
- vt. 诈骗；骗取
- vi. 诈骗
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1. In an interview four weeks ago, Martin Durkin, who made Channel 4’s film The Great Global Warming swindle, claimed that he was subject to “invisible censorship”(7).
四个星期前的一个采访中，第4频道的电影《全球变暖的大骗局》的制片人马丁·杜尔金声称他受到了“看不见的审查” (7) 。
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2. The kind of lies we find most detestable are those with a malicious intent of some kind: lies designed to swindle or hoodwink us, lies that will cause us some pain down the road.
那些最为我们所憎恶谎言就是那些存心不良的：要么是那些用来诈骗或者蒙混我们的，抑或是那些在将来会给我们带来伤痛的。
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3. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later, he carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous conditions.
范德比尔特不仅逍遥法外，而且在两年后又以极其凶狠的手段对政府进行过一次巨大的诈骗。
- swindle (v.) 1782, back-formation from swindler "cheater." Related: Swindled; swindling. As a noun, "act of swindling," from 1833.
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