[scode type="blue"]1.shark
n.坑蒙拐骗的人;诈骗者[/scode]
英英释义：
If you refer to a person as a shark, you disapprove of them because they trick people out of their money by giving bad advice about buying, selling, or investments.【熟词生义】
例句：
Beware the sharks when you are making up your mind how to invest.
当你决定如何投资时要提防诈骗者。
拓展：
如何记忆“shark”的这个意思？有朋友和我说“鲨鱼，吸人血，钱就是人的血 ”（当然这夸张了，大家哪样方便哪样记忆哈~）
再补充一个很常见的短语：
loan shark 放高利贷者【If you describe someone as a loan shark, you disapprove of them because they lend money to people and charge them very high rates of interest on the loan.】
例如：
We talked to a loan shark that Leo borrowed money from.
我们找到了一个放高利贷给里欧的人。
[scode type="blue"]2.gull
v.欺骗[/scode]
英英释义：
an old word meaning ‘to cheat or trick someone’【熟词生义】
例句：
British workers had been gulled into inflicting poverty and deprivation upon themselves.
英国的工人受到欺骗而使自己遭受贫困和剥削。
拓展：
作为“欺骗”的这个意思，它通常的搭配是“be gulled into doing sth ”
可能会有小伙伴留意到刚刚讲的“shark”是鲨鱼，gull海鸥也是动物（这两只小动物有点坏哈，老是来骗钱）。
[scode type="blue"]3.swindle
v.诈骗,骗取，欺诈(尤指钱财)[/scode]
音标：
/'swɪnd(ə)l/
英英释义：
If someone swindles a person or an organization, they deceive them in order to get something valuable from them, especially money.
例句：
①A City businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds.
一名来自伦敦商业区的商人骗取了投资者们数百万英镑。
②An oil executive swindled £50,000 out of his firm.
一名石油公司主管从其公司骗取了 5 万英镑。
[scode type="blue"]4.hoax
vt. 开玩笑骗某人;戏弄某人
n. 恶作剧;骗局[/scode]
音标：/həʊks/
英英释义：
A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that there is a bomb somewhere when there is not, or that a picture is genuine when it is not.
例句：
①I can see through whatever hoax he chooses to stage.
他不管玩什么鬼把戏我都能看穿。
②The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax.
炸弹的恐吓原来是个骗局。
[scode type="blue"]5.coax
v.(用好话)劝诱，哄
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音标：/ˈkəuks/
英英释义：
If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it, especially by some malicious intention.
例句：
The government coaxed them to give up their strike by promising them temporary residence permits.
政府承诺给他们发放暂住证，诱哄他们放弃罢工。
拓展：
“coax”和“hoax”很像，不过“coax”的程度稍微轻一些，表示“哄”，大家可以把这俩一起打包记忆~
[scode type="blue"]6.sucker
v.欺骗;诱骗[/scode]
音标：/'sʌkə/
英英释义：
If you sucker a person into doing something, you deceive them, usually so that they do something that is against their own interests.
例句：
①If you tell those folks the truth, they won't vote for you. But if you sucker them, they'll vote for you twice over.
如果你告诉这些人实情，他们是不会选你的。但是如果你耍点儿伎俩，他们会不止一次推举你。
②It is becoming harder for the authorities to sucker healthy banks into taking over smaller ones.
当局要想哄骗经营状况良好的银行接管小银行是越来越难了。
拓展：
“sucker”在这里虽然是以名词词缀结尾，但是它是在这里是作为动词，常见搭配是“sucker sb into doing sth.”除此之外，sucker作为名词也可以表示“容易上当受骗的人”
[scode type="blue"]7.beguile
v.哄骗，诱骗（做某事）
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音标：/bɪ'gaɪl/
英英释义：
If someone beguiles you into doing something, they trick you into doing it.
例句：
①He used his newspapers to beguile the readers into buying shares in his company.
他利用他的报纸诱骗读者买他公司的股票。
②He beguiled me into signing this contract.
他诱骗我签订了这项合同。
拓展：
从以上两个例句可以看出，“beguile”的搭配通常是“beguile sb into doing sth ”.
除此之外，“beguile”还可以表示“迷住，吸引 ”【If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.】
例如：
I was beguiled by the romance and exotic atmosphere of the souks in Marrakech.
我被马拉喀什露天市场的浪漫情调和异域风情深深地吸引了。
[scode type="blue"]8.dupe
n. 上当者；易受骗的人
vt. 欺骗；愚弄[/scode]
音标：/djuːp/
英英释义：
①A dupe is someone who is tricked by someone else.
②If a person dupes you, they trick you into doing something or into believing something which is not true.
例句：
①Gullible shoppers are easily duped by unscrupulous advertisers.
不坚定的消费者很容易被不道德的广告商蒙骗。
注：gullible: too ready to believe what other people tell you, so that you are easily tricked
②He was duped into telling them everything.
他被骗把什么都告诉了他们。
[scode type="blue"]9.gaslight[/scode]
英英释义：
拓展：
“gaslight”除了可以表示“欺骗”，作为动词还可以表示“操纵 ”
电影《婚姻故事》出现了这个表达：
[scode type="blue"]10.bilk
vt. 欺骗，诈骗
n. 骗子；诈骗[/scode]
音标：/bɪlk/
英英释义：
To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
例句：
They are charged with bilking investors out of millions of dollars.
他们被控诈骗了投资者几百万美元。
拓展：
我们之前在《只听好歌不听话 | evermore: This pain wouldn't be for evermore.》也讲过这个单词，有兴趣的小伙伴可以看看~
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[scode type="blue"]11.double-cross
v.欺骗;阳奉阴违;出卖[/scode]
英英释义：
If someone you trust double-crosses you, they do something which harms you instead of doing something they had promised to do.
例句：
①Don't try and double-cross me, Taylor, because I'll kill you.
别跟我耍花招，泰勒，要不我会杀了你。
②They were frightened of being double-crossed .
他们害怕被骗。
拓展：
我们之前在金曲| 《evermore》：This pain wouldn't be for evermore.也讲过这个单词，有兴趣的小伙伴可以看看~
[scode type="blue"]12.skinner
n.骗子[/scode]
音标：
/'skɪnə/
英英释义：
If you describe someone as a skinner, it means they cheat you.
拓展：
关于“skinner”的这个意思，我没有在网上找到例句，出现的概率很低，大家只需要“混个眼熟”即可。
[scode type="blue"]13.scammer
n. [俚]调情的人；骗子[/scode]
音标：/'skæmə/
例句：
①It's not technically a crime to scam a scammer !
严格说来诈骗诈骗犯不能算犯罪！
②This is a scammer who pretends to be a buyer from United States! His purpose is to steal your email account!
这是一个假扮成美国买家的骗子，其目的是窃取我们的邮箱等帐号资料！
[scode type="blue"]14.fraud
n.骗子;诈骗者;骗人的东西
n.诈骗;欺诈[/scode]
音标：/frɔːd/
英英释义：
A fraud is something or someone that deceives people in a way that is illegal or dishonest.
例句：
①Unfortunately the portraits were frauds .
不幸的是这些肖像都是骗人的。
②Tax frauds are dealt with by the Inland Revenue.
税务欺诈由国内税务局负责处理。
[scode type="blue"]15.cozen
v.欺骗,骗取;诈骗[/scode]
音标：/'kʌz(ə)n/
例句：
①Her uncle cozened her out of her inheritance.
她叔叔诱使她放弃了继承权。
②A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
一个聪明的律师能施小计诱使囚犯承认有罪。
[scode type="blue"]16.finagle
v. 欺骗, 哄骗, 欺瞒; 使用欺骗诡诈手段[/scode]
音标：/fɪ'neɪg(ə)l/
英英释义：
To get something by cheating people or behaving in an unfair way.
例句：
①Figures in science are believed to have used the finagle factor.
一些科学界最主要的人物被认为有过作假的行为。
②All this is important because the finagle factor is still at work.
这是很重要的，因为作假的活动还在工作中进行着。
[scode type="blue"]17.defraud
v.诈骗，欺骗（以获得)[/scode]
音标：/dɪ'frɔːd/
英英释义：
If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
例句：
He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the government.
他承认了阴谋诈骗政府的罪名。
[scode type="blue"]18.crook
n.骗子;罪犯[/scode]
音标：/krʊk/
英英释义：
A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
例句：
①The man is a crook and a liar.
那人是个骗子，满嘴谎言。
②Donaldson was a petty crook with a string of previous offences.
唐纳森有一系列小的犯罪前科，但没犯过大事。
