confidence trick

英 [ˈkɒnfɪdəns trɪk]

美 [ˈkɑːnfɪdəns trɪk]

n.  (常指骗钱的)骗局

柯林斯词典

• (常指骗钱的)骗局
  Aconfidence trickis a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 confidence game

英英释义

noun

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  Synonym:buncobunco gamebunkobunko gameconconfidence gamecon gamegyphustlestingflimflam

双语例句

• Concerns about a possible confidence trick, arising from past experience, are based on offers of the wine for sale, taking customers'money but never delivering the wine.
  一个可能的信心把戏关注，从过去的经验中产生，是基于对酒的销售报价，以客户的钱，但从未提供的酒。
• So, do they really want to make the OMT look like a cheap confidence trick?
  那么他们是否真的就只是想让omt计划看起来像一场廉价的骗局？
• Is the financial system a confidence trick?
  金融系统是利用投资者信心的诡计吗？
• I think that chain letters are a confidence trick and should be made illegal.
  我认为连锁信是一种骗局，应该被规定是非法的。
• Confidence trick ( act of swindling sb by first gaining his trust)
  骗局（从赢得信任入手使某人受骗）。
• It marked the trade diplomats 'surrender to the confidence trick on which the system is founded.
  它标志着贸易外交人员屈服于这个使贸易系统得以建立的骗局。
• So the male wasps are victims of a confidence trick played by the orchid.
  兰花设了一个骗局，雄蜂上当受骗却不自知。
• In part that is a confidence trick: if everyone expects regeneration to happen, it will.
  某种程度上说，这是一场骗局：如果每个人都预计复兴会出现，那么它就会出现。
• Or is it intelligence and confidence that does the trick for you?
  或者智力和自信使你觉得性感？
• What happened last week in the vote on the Lisbon Treaty was a confidence trick of epic proportions.
  所发生的事情，上周在表决里斯本条约是一个信心的伎俩史诗比重。