英:[skæm]
美:[skæm]
英:[skæm]
美:[skæm]
复数:scams
第三人称单数:scams
现在分词:scamming
过去式:scammed
过去分词:scammed
scammer (v.)
词根:scam
n.scammer 调情的人;骗子
noun
a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation
an insurance scam
verb
transitive verb
to deceive and defraud (someone)
… the law firm had got the lucrative job of defending the corporate head of a savings and loan that had scammed another thousand or so people out of their savings …—Joseph Wambaugh
to obtain (something, such as money) by a scam
A Boston hedge fund manager who scammed millions of dollars from friends, family and other investors in what authorities say was a Ponzi scheme has been sent to prison for more than 14 years.—The Worcester (Massachusetts) Telegram & Gazette
1963年出现的词,名词(“诡计、诈骗”)和动词(“欺骗或诈骗,实施欺诈”),美国俚语,起源于嘉年华词汇,源头不明。可能与19世纪英国俚语scamp“骗子,欺诈者”有关(见scamp(名词))。
Noun origin unknown
The first known use of scam was in 1958
scandalnoun
a crime against faith that causes another to sin
loss of or damage to one's reputation : disgrace
brought scandal on the school
something that offends accepted moral standards or disgraces those associated with it
their behavior is a scandal
scamnoun
a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation
lost $500 in a business scam
scampnoun
rascal sense 2
scamperverb
to run lightly and usually playfully about
scampnoun
rascal sense 2
scamnoun
a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation
lost $500 in a business scam
scammernoun
someone who perpetuates a scam : a person who commits or participates in a fraudulent scheme or operation
scamnoun
a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation
lost $500 in a business scam
1 Executives say combatting scams has become the top priority for 2007.
负责人员说,反欺诈已经成为2007年的头等要务.
2 Art Noriega, chief executive of the Miami Parking Authority, said he was “not aware” of any current parking scams in the city but agreed to look into the citations.
3 Park Dong-ik came so close to discovering the scam at the heart of Parasite, by understanding that poor people ultimately smell much worse than rich people.
4 Ramona organizes a scam to drug Wall Street guys and max out their credit cards.
5 Who is this guy and how did he get my number and is this a scam and should I call the police?
6 Sir Adrian warns the prime minister that the supposed North Korean denuclearization is a scam — that if they have destroyed one nuclear facility they have simply hidden another one elsewhere.
7 “The scared and the scamming,” he liked to say, “always give the best cover.”
8 The company scammed hundreds of people out of their life savings.
9 They are “fiercely intelligent, though not necessarily educated — full of scams to feed their families,” Morgan says, and they’re often in a precarious relationship with the law.
10 In another tried-and-true scam, a person finds a gold ring on the ground and asks whether it is yours.
11 "People think it's like a marketing scam," she says of her change in musical taste.
12 We went to learn real estate And found out the scam a bit too late.
13 Now she has gone to all her friends telling them it is a scam and the company is stealing people's identities and money.
14 The novel is much like Tiller himself, a strangely meek yet cocky young man who tells his story with the pace of someone setting you up for a scam.
15 Mr. Dunstone, ever the police officer, suspected a scam and didn’t write back.
16 Carmen : That kind of internet scam is all too common these days.
卡门: 这类互联网骗局今天太多了.
17 This year, the last week in May marked the beginning of grifter season: the wind changed, the pressure dropped, and the scent of scamming was suddenly everywhere in the air.
18 As such, this documentary can be seen as an attempt to chronicle multiple scams, extending all the way to the withdrawal of the painting from an exhibition at the Louvre.
19 I had a scam going, offering to send people to other planets.sssss @{Independent}
20 The man who had stolen my photos to scam lonely people was now asking me for money.
1 欺骗
falsidical deceptive beguiling fallacious duplicitous delusive colorable deceptively fraudulently deceivingly beguilingly imposturing quackishness do sell fraud cheat deception juggle bunk imposition spoof deceit trickery swindle sleight duplicity subterfuge humbug gammon falseness mystification flam skullduggery skulduggery fraudulence knavery shenanigan beguilement humbuggery hokey-pokey cozenage bamboozlement hocuspocus double-deal impose deceive jockey fudge hocus-pocus illude have job stick beat trick bite trim fool hype mock sting cod fiddle mislead Nick chisel hoax dupe gull victimize delude beguile hoodwink bamboozle bilk diddle bunco hocus gyp double-cross shortchange befool chouse do a snow job put over on have a game with practise on practise upon skin game act a lie play a part shell game double cross put upon make a fool of
2 诡计
wile device shift craft scheme trick trap fraud fake rig fetch lurk ruse flanker subterfuge stratagem humbug scheming chicanery hocus-pocus chicane swifty shenanigans sleight swiftie catch cheat intrigue dodge shuffle deceit trickery skulduggery wangle flimflam blague shenanigan
3 诈欺
imposturous con juggling take-in have do fraud cheat ramp hype fiddle juggle imposition pretense trickery swindle indirection eyewash imposture fraudulence flimflam roguery crookery jugglery dupery cozenage fakement double-deal jockey humbug finagle pluck dupe ream gold-brick chouse skin game shell game
4 欺诈
knavish art fiddle deceit trickery guile rip-off knavery trick play fast and loose deceitful fraudulently twist fraudulence fleece hoodwink unfair indirect deceptive bogus insidious disingenuous insincere plant fraud juggle cunning imposition dishonesty ruse insincerity bunco imposture swindling cheat racketeer impose defraud bilk flimflam swindle skin game two faces under one hood false phoney double-dealing lurk hanky-panky gag duplicity baloney shenanigan covin dupe beguile gazump job screw pluck on the cross fraudulent bad-faith deception bad faith chicanery do finagle crooked devious low-down sleaze rort sting schlenter contrivance gyp ream
7 骗局
do con fiddle swizz fix trick fraud fake Con rip rig deception racket flanker swindle rip-off set-up flimflam try-on confidence trick skin game hoax jiggery-pokery put up job sting
9 骗取
take-in fiddle scrounge rip-off obreption job juggle mump gleek grift slice gyp cold-deck yentz unslough take skin touch shark scalp Jew pigeon chisel skunk slicker bilk finagle inveigle blag cheat nick swindle diddle skank wangle nobble schlenter
11 诈骗
have string fraud ramp imposition gouge deceit rook mace flanker swindle gaff shuck bilk gyp knavery jiggery-pokery racketeer bounce shark overreach kife beat screw clip bite sharp trim pigeon pluck chisel snooker bunco jink mountebank chicane nobble gyppo goldbrick ready up on the earhole imposturous double-tongued fraudulent trickily imposure imposturing sculduddery racket juggling humbuggery cozenage stick trick palm hype fox deceive hustle Nick gull fub do shakedown skulduggery grift Trim dupe diddle cozen take for a ride sell a pup con racketeering deception rip-off humbug shenanigan shear nick finagle thimblerig fiddling twist sting chicanery swizz skin fiddle on the fiddle fake trimming chouse try-on dirty work false pretenses