Time时代周刊核心短语 第111期:shell game
日期:2016-11-10 14:50
(单词翻译:单击)
shell game
骗局,耍老千
讲解:
shell game这个词组出自江湖郎中常玩的把戏:用三个贝壳轮流快速覆盖一粒豆子,然后让观众押赌:豆子最后被盖在哪一个贝壳下面。这一套手法要高明,才能误导观众误判而错押赌注,赚取赌金。shell game现在也用来代表一般的「骗局或障眼法」。
例句:
The Iraqis kept piling on the defiance with daily forays into Kuwaiti territory to haul away weapons and equipment, while Saddam continued to play a shell game with antiaircraft missiles in the southern no-fly zone of Iraq.(出自:TIME, Jan. 25,1993,p. 16)
〔伊拉克海珊总统为回避联合国安理会的决议案,花招百出〕伊拉克违反禁令的行为愈来愈多,每天都侵入科威特领域,运走武器、装备,而海珊也持续在伊拉克南部禁止飞行区大玩防空飞弹的障眼法。