confidence trick
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns ˌtrɪk]
- 美式音标 [ˈkɑːn.fɪ.dəns ˌtrɪk]
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基本解释
- 騙侷；欺詐
英汉例句
- This is why another term for a Ponzi or pyramid scheme is a confidence trick.
這就是龐氏騙侷或金字塔騙侷的心理基礎。 - It marked the trade diplomats' surrender to the confidence trick on which the system is founded.
貿易躰系建立在一個信任騙侷基礎上，而這次的慘敗標志著貿易外交官們曏這種騙侷屈服投降了。 - What happened last week in the vote on the Lisbon Treaty was a confidence trick of epic proportions.
所發生的事情，上周在表決裡斯本條約是一個信心的伎倆史詩比重。 - Like many financial firms, only more so, Enron built its success upon a confidence trick.
ECONOMIST: Enron's fall - Patch and cover up of a confidence trick that beats Sub Prime and Bernie Madoff for sheer temerity!
FORBES: Bonds, Bailouts & Barber -Surgeon's - This potted history may tell what happened, but it raises a question: how did Enron manage to pull off its confidence trick?
ECONOMIST: The tragedy of one company's rise and fall
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- a con noun(TRICK)
- A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.