confidence trick

1. (常指骗钱的)骗局
   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.

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

1. 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？
2. 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？
3. Is the financial system a confidence trick?
   金融系统是利用投资者信心的诡计吗？
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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）。
9. 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。
10. 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。

noun

1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

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