hoax

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vt. 欺骗, 哄骗, 愚弄 n. 愚弄人, 恶作剧

发音

UK /həʊks/
US /hoʊks/

词形变化

hoaxes 复数 hoaxes hoaxed hoaxes 三单 hoaxing hoaxing 现在分词 hoaxed 过去式 hoaxed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

骗局；恶作剧

动词

愚弄；欺骗

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

    骗局

    恶作剧

    The phone call to the police about a tiger in a tree turned out to be a hoax.

    The news story about the pop singer coming to town, unfortunately for his fans, turned out to be a hoax.

v.
  1. 1.

    To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.

    欺骗

    作弄

    戏弄

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

fraud humbug dupery fraudulence put-on

上位词 6

trickery guile wile chicane chicanery shenanigan

下位词 1

goldbrick
动词

同义词 1

pull someone's leg

上位词 4

deceive delude cozen lead on

相关短语

climate hoax global hoax

词源

Reportedly a form of hocus. Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”). Compare hokey.

来源：wiktionary