1. cheat:
例：
He doesn't trust car mechanics—he thinks
they're all trying to cheat him. （他不信任汽修工，他覺得他們都是在騙他的錢。）
cheat somebody out of something
She says she was cheated out of $10,000 she
paid to a modeling agency. （她說她被一個模特中介公司騙了一萬美金。）
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2. swindle: to get money from a
person or organization by cheating them, especially using clever and
complicated methods
例：
He was jailed in 1992 for attempting to
swindle the insurance company he worked for. （他1992年入獄，罪名是企圖訛詐自己所在的保險公司。）
swindle somebody out of something
Investors have been swindled out of
millions of pounds. （投資者已經被騙了幾百萬。）
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3. con: to persuade someone to buy
something or to give you money by telling them lies
備注：''con''常用于口語中。
例：
By the time she realized she had been
conned, she had lost more than $3000. （她意識到自己被騙了的時候，已經損失了3000多美元了。）
con somebody out of something
She conned me out of $50. （她騙了我50美元。）
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4. fiddle: to give false information
or make dishonest changes to financial records, in order to get money or avoid
paying money
備注：''fiddle''常用于英式英語的非正式場合。
例：
My boss thinks I've been fiddling my travel
expenses. （我老板認為我在差旅費上弄虛作假。）
He had been fiddling his income tax for
years. （他在個人所得稅上弄虛作假已經有好幾年了。）
fiddle the books/fiddle the accounts (=change a company's financial records)
The company secretary has been fiddling the
books for years. （這個秘書為公司做假賬已經有好幾年了。）
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5. defraud: to get money from a
company or organization, especially a very large one, by deceiving it
例：
He is charged with attempting to defraud
his business partner. （他的罪名是，企圖訛詐生意伙伴。）
defraud somebody (out) of something
They defrauded the company out of hundreds
of thousands of dollars. （他們騙了公司好多好多錢。）
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6. fleece: to get a lot of money
from someone by tricking them
備注：''fleece''常用于非正式的場合。
例：
She fleeced him for everything he had. （她把他的錢都騙光了。）
fleece somebody of something
She estimates he fleeced her of about
￡50,000 by tricking her into buying fake antiques. （她被他騙得買了很多假古董，她估計了一下，大約被騙了5萬英鎊。）
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7. trick somebody out of: to get
money or possessions from someone, by tricking or deceiving them
例：
Megan was tricked out of her life savings
by a smooth-talking handsome man who had promised to marry her. （有個帥哥說會娶梅根為妻，花言巧語地把她的所有積蓄都騙光了。）
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8. do somebody out of: to
cheat someone by not giving them money that they deserve or that they are owed
備注：''do
somebody out of''常用于英式英語的非正式場合。
例：
The way I see it, they've done me out of
three weeks' wages. （我覺得他們少給了我三周的工資。）
She's convinced the sales assistant did her
out of ￡15. （她覺得售貨員少找了她15英鎊。）
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9. hustle:
備注：''hustle''常用于非正式的場合。
例：
She's accused of running an elaborate scam
to hustle elderly people. （她被控精心策劃了騙局騙取老年人財物。）
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10. you've been had: use this to say
that someone has been cheated but they do not realize it
備注：''you've
been had''常用于口語中。
例：
I hate to tell you this but you've been
had. The antique clock you bought is a phoney. （我不想刺激你，但是你真的被騙了。你買的那個古董鐘是贗品。）
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