| 词汇 | rip-off |
| 释义 | rip someone offphrasal verb with ripverbuk /rɪp/ us /rɪp/-pp- informal C2 to cheat someone by making them pay too much money for something: 讹诈（某人）;敲（某人）竹杠 Bob's tickets cost much less than ours - I think we've been ripped off.鲍勃买的票比我们的便宜多了——我觉得我们被人敲了竹杠。 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. Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint flannel funny business game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp prankishly prankster pretext pretextual pull rip something offphrasal verb with ripverbuk /rɪp/ us /rɪp/-pp- (REMOVE)to remove something very quickly and carelessly: 猛地撕掉;迅速脱掉 They ripped off their clothes and ran into the sea.他们迅速脱掉衣服跳进了大海。 Removing and extracting ablate abstract abstraction bowdlerization bowdlerized drain extraction extrication filterable filtration fish something out gouge something out peel rout someone out scoop something out slice slice something off snowploughing suck wipe (STEAL)slang to steal something: 偷窃，偷盗 He rips stuff off from supermarkets to pay for his heroin.他从超市偷东西来换海洛因。 Stealing abscond abscond with someone/something aggravated burglary anti-burglar anti-burglary eavesdrop hot-wire housebreaking jemmy jimmy job piratically plunder poach poaching porch piracy rustle rustling snaffle snitch rip-off noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈrɪp.ɒf/ us /ˈrɪp.ɑːf/ something that is not worth what you pay for it: 索价过高的物品 $300 for that shirt? - That's a complete rip-off.那件衬衫300美元？——纯粹是敲竹杠。 to be expensive cost a (small) fortuneThis trip cost a fortune. cost an arm and a legDrinks at that club cost an arm and a leg. be daylight robberyWhat they're charging to get in is daylight robbery. be highway robbery$50 for two drinks? That's highway robbery! be a rip-off£200 for a concert ticket is a total rip-off. be prohibitively expensiveThe cost of textbooks alone makes schooling prohibitively expensive for many. Costing too much bottomless pit capital intensive cheap cheap at half the priceidiom cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom cost someone a pretty pennyidiom cost someone dearidiom costliness daylight robbery dear exorbitant gouge outprice pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitive prohibitively sight rip off someone/something | American Dictionaryrip off someone/somethingphrasal verb with ripverbus/rɪp/ infml to cheat someone by charging too much money, or to steal something: We got ripped off buying our new car. Some accuse the company of ripping off the programming language from its competitor. rip-off noun[ C ] slangus/ˈrɪp ˌɔf/ an act of cheating someone by charging too much or not giving anything of value for money spent: Don’t eat in the museum restaurant – it’s a rip-off. rip sb off | Business Englishrip sb offphrasal verb with ripverb[ T ]uk /rɪp/us-pp- informal COMMERCE to make someone pay more for something than it is worth: Large organizations don't tend to rip people off. The consumer is definitely being ripped off with regard to food prices. rip-off noun[ C ] COMMERCE informaluk /ˈrɪpɒf/us something that costs more than it is worth: Loan protection is the biggest rip-off in banking today. rip-off prices a cheap or bad copy of something: He's fed up with the endless high-street rip-offs of his collections. All along the road there were market stalls selling rip-off Versace, Gucci and Lacoste. |
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