swindle
v
(infml 口) [Tn, Tn.pr]
(a) ~ sb/sth (out of sth) cheat sb/sth, esp in a business transaction 詐騙某人[某事物](尤指在生意中)
swindle an insurance company 詐騙保險公司
You're easily swindled! 你很容易上當!
I've been swindled out of 5. 我讓人騙了5英鎊.
(b) ~ sth (out of sb/sth) get (money, etc) by fraud 詐取, 騙得(金錢等)
She swindled 1000 out of the Social Security. 她騙得了 1000 英鎊社會保險金. swindle, n
1 act of swindling 詐騙行為: victims of a tax, mortgage, etc swindle 稅款、 抵押貸款等詐騙案的受害者.
2 person or thing that is presented wrongly in order to deceive people 冒名者; 冒充貨; 騙人的東西
That newspaper story's a complete swindle. 報紙上那篇報道純粹是騙人的鬼話.