英语词汇“fleecing”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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There are hundreds of cases that could, and should have been dealt with involving crooked directors, deliberately fleecing the public.
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This was the fleecing of all of the fat of the external services.
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They are there only for the purpose of fleecing the people.
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This may provide more scope for fleecing the players, and more scope for the growth of crime.
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We are trying to find out who it is that is fleecing the public.
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The danger to the public house is the itinerant professional gambler who makes his living fleecing fools.
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Fleecing the workforce, insecurity, expensive private care, commercialising the pension system, poverty and social exclusion.
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They are quite prepared to pay the fine, and the next day they are back fleecing the tourists.
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But such companies have been fleecing the public of millions of pounds.
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It is unaccountable and in a sense it is fleecing our taxpayers.
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He made his money by fleecing somebody else.
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The companies are fleecing the taxpayer and siphoning funds—legally, at the moment—that should be going into social housing.
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Does it not show that we can have quality local services without fleecing taxpayers?
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The second way in which insiders favour themselves is by churning the market and fleecing external investors.
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Examples of fleecing