1. cheat:
例:
He doesn't trust car mechanics—he thinks
they're all trying to cheat him. (他不信任汽修工,他觉得他们都是在骗他的钱。)
cheat somebody out of something
She says she was cheated out of $10,000 she
paid to a modeling agency. (她说她被一个模特中介公司骗了一万美金。)
2. swindle: to get money from a
person or organization by cheating them, especially using clever and
complicated methods
例:
He was jailed in 1992 for attempting to
swindle the insurance company he worked for. (他1992年入狱,罪名是企图讹诈自己所在的保险公司。)
swindle somebody out of something
Investors have been swindled out of
millions of pounds. (投资者已经被骗了几百万。)
3. con: to persuade someone to buy
something or to give you money by telling them lies
备注:''con''常用于口语中。
例:
By the time she realized she had been
conned, she had lost more than $3000. (她意识到自己被骗了的时候,已经损失了3000多美元了。)
con somebody out of something
She conned me out of $50. (她骗了我50美元。)
4. fiddle: to give false information
or make dishonest changes to financial records, in order to get money or avoid
paying money
备注:''fiddle''常用于英式英语的非正式场合。
例:
My boss thinks I've been fiddling my travel
expenses. (我老板认为我在差旅费上弄虚作假。)
He had been fiddling his income tax for
years. (他在个人所得税上弄虚作假已经有好几年了。)
fiddle the books/fiddle the accounts (=change a company's financial records)
The company secretary has been fiddling the
books for years. (这个秘书为公司做假账已经有好几年了。)
5. defraud: to get money from a
company or organization, especially a very large one, by deceiving it
例:
He is charged with attempting to defraud
his business partner. (他的罪名是,企图讹诈生意伙伴。)
defraud somebody (out) of something
They defrauded the company out of hundreds
of thousands of dollars. (他们骗了公司好多好多钱。)
6. fleece: to get a lot of money
from someone by tricking them
备注:''fleece''常用于非正式的场合。
例:
She fleeced him for everything he had. (她把他的钱都骗光了。)
fleece somebody of something
She estimates he fleeced her of about
£50,000 by tricking her into buying fake antiques. (她被他骗得买了很多假古董,她估计了一下,大约被骗了5万英镑。)
7. trick somebody out of: to get
money or possessions from someone, by tricking or deceiving them
例:
Megan was tricked out of her life savings
by a smooth-talking handsome man who had promised to marry her. (有个帅哥说会娶梅根为妻,花言巧语地把她的所有积蓄都骗光了。)
8. do somebody out of: to
cheat someone by not giving them money that they deserve or that they are owed
备注:''do
somebody out of''常用于英式英语的非正式场合。
例:
The way I see it, they've done me out of
three weeks' wages. (我觉得他们少给了我三周的工资。)
She's convinced the sales assistant did her
out of £15. (她觉得售货员少找了她15英镑。)
9. hustle:
备注:''hustle''常用于非正式的场合。
例:
She's accused of running an elaborate scam
to hustle elderly people. (她被控精心策划了骗局骗取老年人财物。)
10. you've been had: use this to say
that someone has been cheated but they do not realize it
备注:''you've
been had''常用于口语中。
例:
I hate to tell you this but you've been
had. The antique clock you bought is a phoney. (我不想刺激你,但是你真的被骗了。你买的那个古董钟是赝品。)

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