hoax

美 [ho?ks] 　英 [h??ks]

• n.騙局；惡作劇
• v.作弄；欺騙
• 網(wǎng)絡戲弄；愚弄；惡作劇病毒

詞形變化

復數(shù)：hoaxes  現(xiàn)在分詞：hoaxing  過去式：hoaxed  

同義詞

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. 欺騙,愚弄,戲弄;騙術,騙局
v.	1. 欺騙,戲弄

英英解釋

n.	1. a trick in which someone deliberately tells people that something bad is going to happen or that something is true when it is not
v.	1. to trick someone deliberately with a hoax

例句

The fire brigade answered the emergency call but there was no fire it was all a hoax .

消防隊接到報警電話后采取了行動，但是并沒有火災這完全是一場惡作劇。

A little over five minutes later, we read a report that a similar text had gone out in the Philipines, and that it turned out to be a hoax.

就在5分鐘后，我們看到來自菲律賓的一條類似的信息，后來證明是一場騙局。

We all left the building after a telephone caller said there was a bomb, but it was just a hoax.

有人打電話來說大樓里有炸彈，我們都離開了，但這只是一個惡作劇。

The consensus seems to be that the paper itself is real rather than some sort of hoax, but the result may well turn out to be wrong.

論文本身是真實可信的而不是愚弄大眾，但是，輿論認為，這一結(jié)論很可能被證明有錯。

"As it turns out, it was a hoax, " admitted the author in a statement posted on the website of his magazine, La Regle du Jeu.

萊維在他的雜志「游戲規(guī)則」網(wǎng)站發(fā)表聲明，坦言「如同眾人所見，這是個騙局」。

Many prominent British scientists deemed it a hoax when presented with a sketch and pelt, in 1798.

1798年，當草圖和獸皮被公布的時候，許多著名的英國科學家都認為是惡作劇。

It turned out that Ponzi had never actually got around to buying many postal coupons and that it was all a colossal hoax.

事后證明，龐茨事實上并未四處購買郵政息券，而這完全是一個巨大的騙局。

There was not a bomb in the hotel at all--it was just a hoax.

飯店里根本沒有炸彈，這不過是一場騙局。

However, the last airline did not find any explosives and that the suspected hoax calls.

但航空公司最后并沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)任何爆炸物，這個電話疑似惡作劇。

Per the Zetas, admitting that it was all a hoax, a part of the Planet X cover-up, would be just too humiliating.

根據(jù)齊塔人的說法，承認這一切都是騙局，是X星掩蓋活動的一部分，實在是太令人丟臉了。

Mr Cohen, 40, said: 'This could be an elaborate hoax, however the possibility that this might be a genuine alien should not be discounted.

40歲的科恩說：“這可能是一場精心編排的騙局，不過也不能排除這的確是一具外星人尸體的可能。”

After seeing this extraordinary show, Mr Melikian wrote an inflammatory review, insinuating that the discovery could have been a hoax.

看了這場非同尋常的展覽后，MELIKIAN先生寫了一篇火藥味十足的評論，暗示這項發(fā)現(xiàn)可能是一場騙局。

"A jolly good hoax, Lu, " he said as he came out again; "you have really taken us in, I must admit. We half believed you. "

“你真會說謊啊，璐。”他一邊走出來，一邊說，“我得承認，我們真的被你騙了，我們幾乎聽信你說的話。”

The family, which had repeatedly denied that the incident was a hoax, declined to answer questions Sunday morning.

希內(nèi)一家此前多次否認這一事件是騙局，他們周日上午拒絕回答問題。

By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.

等到人們意識到那個故事是個騙局時，等到人們意識到那個故事是個騙局時全國的意大利面條已經(jīng)銷售一空。已經(jīng)銷售一空。

The ombudsman's office said the authorities at first thought they were dealing with a hoax.

申訴專員辦公室表示，一開始當局認為這可能是一個惡作劇。

Though the book has been completely discredited as a hoax and forgery, it is still in print and remains widely circulated around the world.

盡管這本書像惡作劇與偽造品那樣完全不可信，但它迄今為止仍在出版并在世界廣泛流傳。

He made a hoax call pretending to be the boss.

他打了一通惡作劇的電話，假裝是上司。

Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax.

當他看到那個工人真的是給警察掛電話，才恍然大悟，原來他們都有成了一場騙局的受害者。

If it is a hoax, then it would be the best of all hoaxes.

假如它是一個惡作劇，它將是所有惡作劇中最好的一個。我相信這是真的…

They think the hole was dug by a shovel, and the whole thing was just a hoax.

他們認為這個深坑是由鐵鏟挖出來的，而整個事情只是一場騙局。

The latest UFO claim to come out of Siberia comes months after the apparent discovery of an alien's body was revealed as a hoax.

在那一場發(fā)現(xiàn)外星人身體的鬧劇被識破后數(shù)月，最新一起UFO出現(xiàn)在西伯利亞。

The information the police received had then on a merry-go-round until they realized they were victims of a hoax.

警方意識到自己上當受騙后，他們所得到的情報雖花了很大的力氣但卻毫無價值。

Newspapers in Shanghai and Taiwan ran a nude photo purportedly of Palin that turned out to be a hoax.

上海和臺灣幾家報紙登出一張據(jù)稱是佩林的裸照，這最終證明是一場騙局。

The parents have also been barred from making money off the hoax for at least four years.

這對父母通過哄騙賺錢長達四年。

But many wondered why Beijing, with its Great Firewall, didn't take the sites down and slap the wrists of the authors of the hoax.

但許多人想不通，北京有長城防火墻，為什么沒有關閉那些網(wǎng)站并將發(fā)布虛假消息的人抓起來。

That girl has not been found and authorities are investigating whether the call was a hoax.

而這個女孩兒還沒有找到，有關人員正在調(diào)查這個電話是不是惡作劇。

However, it would appear that it may have been accidental disinformation rather than a hoax per se.

不過，從它本身看這可能是偶然事件，而不是一個有意的惡作劇。

Was it a hoax, a guess or an unauthorized leak?

這是騙局、猜測、還是一次未經(jīng)授權的泄密？

'It was a malicious hoax, ' he said.

他說，這是一種不懷好意的欺騙。

Caroline Elam, a leading scholar on the Renaissance, suggested that the work was "a very skilled, elaborate and expert hoax. "

卡羅琳·伊拉姆，研究文藝復興的著名學者，認為這幅畫是“一個很有技術含量，精心制作的專家級騙局。”

April fool's day crept up on us once again, and the media was full of made-up stories. Which of the following was a hoax?

隨著愚人節(jié)又即將到來，媒體上又再度充斥捏造的新聞。下列新聞哪一則是假的？

I hear the news of his arrival, but it turn out to is a mere hoax.

我得知他將到來的消息，卻只變成一個玩笑。

What an insult to them to say that it was all a hoax.

要說大屠殺是謠言，對他們來說，無疑是莫大的侮辱。

That the promises of freedom and unity were "empty promises" and the ideal of the American Dream was a complete hoax.

他認為所承諾的自由和聯(lián)合都是些“空頭支票”，美國夢的理想也不過是個徹底的騙局。

Too bad it's absolutely not affiliated with Engadget or its parent companies (if it is, in fact, real, and not a photoshop or hoax).

很可惜那個店子里面的東西沒有一樣和Engadget或者其母公司有關（如果這張照片是真的，不是出自photoshop或者惡作劇）。

Other than the hoaxer's stated reason, to test gullibility, what was the reason for the hoax?

除了該惡作劇者表述的理由是為了測試人們的易受欺騙性之外，搞該惡作劇還有什么理由？

The Half-Human Hybrid hoax is only the latest in a long series of supposedly mysterious photos.

人們喜歡奧秘，特別是附有奇怪圖片的奧秘。這半人半動物雜交鬧劇只是一大系列假定為神秘的照片之中最新的一張。

Honey, come here to play the game, I do not want you to continue to play longer. Because, from the very beginning, I knew it was a hoax.

親愛的，游戲玩到這里，我不想和你繼續(xù)玩下去了。因為，從一開始我就知道這是一個騙局。

Due to the lack of evidence, existence of Solution B is still questionable and even considered a hoax.

由于缺乏證據(jù)，存在的解決方案B仍然是值得懷疑的，甚至認為是一場惡作劇。