1. 1矇騙、糊弄、把人搞糊塗(口語,帶點戲謔)

    To bamboozle someone is to trick them, or to talk so fast and clever that they cannot see what is really going on. It is an informal, slightly playful word. You might hear it in a story or from a parent, not often in a law court. You can bamboozle a person with a lie, a magic trick, or a flood of numbers and long words. Though actually it often has a comic feel: the person who was bamboozled looks a bit silly, but we are not always talking about a serious crime. If someone took your money with a cold plan, cheat or swindle is the heavier word; bamboozle is the lighter, almost smiling one.

組成From an old slang word bam, which meant “to trick,” and as a noun, a cheat. It is possibly from French embobiner (“to wrap someone up / take them in”), but that link is not certain.

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

bamboozleverb/bæmˈbuː.zl̩/

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    informalTo con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.

    • “Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”
    • ‘A clever ruse to bamboozle us.’
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    informalTo confuse, frustrate or perplex.

    • He's completely bamboozled by the changes in the computer system.
    • "Although Morphy misplays the opening, it does not take him long to bamboozle his opponent."

bamboozlenoun/bæmˈbuː.zl̩/

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    obsoleteinformalA cheat, hoax, or imposition.

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