| 词汇 | cheat |
| 释义 | cheat verb uk /tʃiːt/ us /tʃiːt/ B2[ I or T ] to behave in a dishonest way in order to get what you want: 欺骗，行骗;作弊 Any athlete caught cheating will be disqualified from the competition. cheat atHe cheats at cards.他打牌作弊吗？ I suspect he cheats on his taxes (= avoids paying as much tax as he should).我怀疑他逃税。 cheat inShe cheated in the exam by copying from the boy in front. They cheat people by charging too much for building materials.他们通过多收建筑材料费欺骗顾客。 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. [ I ]informal to have a secret sexual relationship with someone who is not your husband, wife, or usual sexual partner: What would you do if you caught your partner cheating? I love my wife and I would never cheat. cheat onShe found out that he'd been cheating on her. I've been cheated on before, and it's awful. The winner has been disqualified for cheating. He wouldn't hesitate to cheat his own mother if there was money in it for him. He'd do anything to avoid being caught, including lie, cheat and murder. Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint funny business game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp overcharge prankishly prankster pretext pretextual pull You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Disloyalty, betrayal & treason Idiomcheat death Phrasal verbcheat someone out of something cheat noun uk /tʃiːt/ us /tʃiːt/ [ C ] a person who behaves in a dishonest way: 骗子；作弊者 Trouble broke out in the match when one of the players called a member of the other team a cheat.比赛中，一名队员叫对方一名队员骗子，纠纷就此爆发。 a dishonest person cheatShe's a liar and a cheat! cheaterUSI wouldn't play a game with him - he's a cheater. crookMy dad says that used car salesmen are just a bunch of crooks. cowboyUKThe private security firm are just a bunch of cowboys looking to rough up anyone who crosses their path. fraudHe claims to be a doctor, but he's just a fraud without a medical licence. sharkThe landlord was a real shark, jacking up rents without relief. [ S ] something dishonest that makes people believe that something is true when it is not: 骗人的东西 You can use cocoa powder to make the cake rather than chocolate - it's a bit of a cheat, but nobody notices the difference.你可以用可可粉而不是巧克力做蛋糕——这有点骗人，可是没人会注意到其中的差别。 [ C ] a collection of instructions or special information that someone can use to help them play a computer game more successfully: （玩电脑游戏时使用的）秘技，作弊码 the latest game cheats最新的游戏秘技 See also cheat code Dishonest people birther cadger charmer cheater deceiver fibber hoaxer humbug hustler hypocrite liar mountebank perjurer profiteer rigger scammer schemer trickster wheeler-dealer You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Cheating & tricking Computer programming & software cheat | American Dictionarycheat verb[ I/T ] us/tʃit/ to act in a way that is dishonest, or to make someone believe something that is not true in order to get something for yourself: [ T ]The insurance companies were found to be cheating consumers. [ T ]They got cheated out of their money. cheatnoun[ C ]us/tʃit/ He is a liar and a cheat. cheat | Business Englishcheat verb[ I or T ] uk /tʃiːt/us to behave in a dishonest way or deceive someone in order to get what you want: Many of the small investors felt that they had been cheated by the sudden reduction in interest rates. cheat on sthHe was caught cheating on his taxes. cheatingnoun[ U ] In my opinion, this was a clear case of cheating. Phrasal verbcheat sb out of sth cheat noun uk /tʃiːt/us [ C ](US alsocheater) a person who behaves in a dishonest way: a tax cheat [ S ] something dishonest or unfair: It's a cheat that I did all the work and you got all the credit. Examples of cheatcheat In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating). A perception that the physician has somehow cheated on that expected reciprocation is prone to evoke a most strident form of aggression. In cases involving male business partnerships the various ways by which one might end up calling the other a ' cheat ' hardly need spelling out. For example, 80% of subjects tested reported stronger anger when cheated by a long-term partner than by a stranger. Anti-aging entrepreneurs peddle therapies that promise to cheat the clock. In this case only the cheated party needs to know the identity of the cheater to prevent future trade. A symbolic way of cheating our inevitable common-fate, if you like. During a meeting of the village committee a decision can be taken on how to punish the cheat. Nor does his performance provide any way of computing the exact probability that he is cheating. Winners might cheat, they might be consistently lucky, or they might try harder. It caused particular fury when a minister excluded any whose communion offerings he had taken : people felt they had been cheated. A poor man, without resources or power, for his part, can only have recourse to zey-yan, that is to theft, cheating and shameful sneaking around. If cheating becomes institutionalized as a strategy, then it destroys the possibility of anything else but a low quality outcome. He knows that people who refrain from cheating in these circumstances will develop good reputations and do better in the long run. I do not have to fear that they will steal anything from the factory or cheat me. See all examples of cheat These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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