核心畫面

One way to picture fraud: someone builds a false front — a fake name, a fake document, a fake promise — and walks off with money or trust that was never given freely. The word can point at the act or at the person wearing the mask, but the mask is always there.

可以想成 fraud 的畫面是有人搭起一面假的門面——假名字、假文件、假承諾——然後把別人的錢或信任騙走。這個字可以更多收起可以想成 fraud 的畫面是有人搭起一面假的門面——假名字、假文件、假承諾——然後把別人的錢或信任騙走。這個字可以指那個行為,也可以指戴著面具的那個人,但不管指哪一個,那面具都在。

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

fraudnoun/ˈfɹɔːd/

  • 1

    lawThe crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

  • 2

    Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.

    • When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
    • But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
  • 3

    The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

  • 4

    A person who performs any such trick.

  • 5

    obsoleteA trap or snare.

    • to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud

fraudverb/ˈfɹɔːd/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo defraud.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。