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hoax

noun
/həʊks/
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  1. an act intended to make somebody believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant騙局；惡作劇
    • He was accused of using a bomb hoax to empty a rival restaurant.他被控謊稱有炸彈以嚇跑一家對手餐廳的食客。
    • Detectives are still investigating the hoax calls.偵探仍在調查那些惡作劇電話。
    • The emergency call turned out to be a hoax.緊急電話原來是一個騙局。
    Extra Examples
    • He had been the victim of a computer virus hoax.他曾經是計算機病毒惡作劇的受害者。
    • The organizers staged a hoax on some of the competitors.主辦機構戲弄了一些參賽選手。
    • a hoax perpetrated by the British government英國政府設計的騙局
    • The so-called ‘Iron Age’ remains turned out to be an elaborate hoax.所謂的“鐵器時代”遺迹原來是一個精心設計的騙局。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • elaborate
    • cruel
    • bomb
    • …
    verb + hoax
    • perpetrate
    • fall for
    • expose
    • …
    hoax + noun
    • email
    • letter
    • call
    • …
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    Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a verb): probably a contraction of hocus.

hoax

verb
/həʊks/
/həʊks/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they hoax
/həʊks/
/həʊks/
he / she / it hoaxes
/ˈhəʊksɪz/
/ˈhəʊksɪz/
past simple hoaxed
/həʊkst/
/həʊkst/
past participle hoaxed
/həʊkst/
/həʊkst/
-ing form hoaxing
/ˈhəʊksɪŋ/
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  1. hoax somebody to trick somebody by making them believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant作弄；欺騙
    • 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.他派了一個朋友來騙我們，而不是自己來。我們從未見過他，所以我們沒有理由認爲那不是他。
    Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a verb): probably a contraction of hocus.

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