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词汇 fooling
释义 fooling
present participle offool
fool
verb
uk /fuːl/ us /fuːl/
B2[ I or T ]
to trick someone: 愚弄,欺骗
Don't be fooled by his appearance.别被他的外表给骗了。
She said she was doing it to help me, but I wasn't fooled.她说她这样做是为了帮我,但我没上她的当。
be fooled intoTim was fooled into believing that he'd won a lot of money.蒂姆受了骗,以为自己赢了很多钱。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to deceive someone
deceiveThe cigarette companies deceived the public about the health risks of cigarettes.
deceive yourselfYou'd be deceiving yourself if you believed that.
trickShe felt they had tricked her into saying more than she intended.
foolYou don't fool me with your innocent act.
take inThey claimed to be destitute, but we weren't taken in.
pull the wool over someone's eyesI'm not stupid. You can't pull the wool over my eyes like that.
 you could have fooled me!informal
used to tell someone that you do not believe what they have just said: 我才不相信你呢!
"Really, I'm very happy." "You could have fooled me."“真的,我很快乐。”“说得像真的一样。”
Don't be fooled by his pleasant manner - he's pretty ruthless beneath that nice exterior.
I'm not easily fooled.
You can't fool me!
She was fooled into handing over the money.
He fooled a lot of people.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bad faith
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
deceive
diddle
fiddle
flannel
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
pretext
pretextual
pull
pull a fast oneidiom
pull the wool over someone's eyesidiom
racket

Phrasal verbs


fool around
fool with something

Examples of fooling


fooling

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


We would be fooling ourselves in thinking that we were appreciating and understanding the art and works of other cultures.
On the other hand, the third-person mode is also, definingly, fooling.
Fooling ourselves with child autonomy and assent in nontherapeutic clinical research.
It has fooled some of us for some of the time, but it now risks fooling us all of the time.
Long before the college-age students have come to equate childlike explorations with embarrassment and 'fooling around'.
Audience members are fooling themselves if they relate to him in any other way.
She is not fooling herself.
We were only fooling around.
Those who think—if anyone holds such a view—that lawyers will not have a field day are fooling themselves.
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Those who think that the two cases can be treated separately are fooling themselves and risk making the world a more dangerous place.
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All it needs is some children to be fooling around or a bully pushing a youngster against the side for an accident to happen.
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We are fooling ourselves if we believe that our state secondary system is able to make even a dent in that gap.
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Let us stop fooling ourselves in the face of the facts.
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They may succeed in fooling some journalists and some of the public.
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We should be fooling ourselves if we pretended that that was likely to happen.
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