an act intended to make somebody believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant 骗局；恶作剧 He was accused of using a bomb hoax to empty a rival restaurant. 他被控谎称有炸弹以吓跑一家对手餐厅的食客。 Detectives are still investigating the hoax calls. 侦探仍在调查那些恶作剧电话。 The emergency call turned out to be a hoax. 紧急电话原来是一个骗局。
Extra ExamplesHe had been the victim of a computer virus hoax. 他曾经是计算机病毒恶作剧的受害者。 The organizers staged a hoax on some of the competitors. 主办机构戏弄了一些参赛选手。 a hoax perpetrated by the British government 英国政府设计的骗局 The so-called ‘Iron Age’ remains turned out to be an elaborate hoax. 所谓的“铁器时代”遗迹原来是一个精心设计的骗局。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- elaborate
- cruel
- bomb
- …
- perpetrate
- fall for
- expose
- …
- letter
- call
- …
Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a verb): probably a contraction of hocus.
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hoax
verb- hoax somebody
to trick somebody by making them believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant 作弄；欺骗 He hoaxed us by sending a friend instead of coming himself. We’d never met him so we had no reason to think it wasn’t him. 他派了一个朋友来骗我们，而不是自己来。我们从未见过他，所以我们没有理由认为那不是他。
Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a verb): probably a contraction of hocus.
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