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词汇 deceiving
释义 deceiving
present participle ofdeceive
deceive
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈsiːv/ us /dɪˈsiːv/
B2
to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage: 欺骗,蒙骗;隐瞒
The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones.该公司用旧计算机冒充新机器欺骗顾客。
The sound of the door closing deceived me into thinking they had gone out.关门声让我以为他们已经出门了。
Synonym
trick
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.
 deceive yourself
to refuse to accept the truth: 自欺欺人,欺骗自己
She thinks he'll come back, but she's deceiving herself.她认为他会回来,实际上她是在自欺欺人。
Her main character flaw is her readiness to deceive herself.
He insists that she loves him, but really, he's deceiving himself.
Unless I'm deceiving myself, I think we have a very good friendship.
I don't think they can face the truth so they deceive themselves.
People deceive themselves with their own version of events.
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.
Anyway, I can't deceive him - it's against all my principles.无论如何,我不能欺骗他——这有悖于我做人的原则。
He repudiated the allegation that he had tried to deceive them.
I suspect these statistics flatter to deceive.我怀疑这些数据是掩人耳目的。
What really angered her was the dirty underhand way they had deceived her.
They deceived us into thinking they would come back later with our money.
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

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Refusing & rejecting

Related words


deceiver
deceivable
deceivingly

Idiom


are my eyes deceiving me?

Examples of deceiving


deceiving

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


We argue that the subjects misinterpret this because the information to the visual system is ambiguous and also deceiving.
The agent who considers himself to be acting on the more specific, allegedly universalizable maxim is deceiving himself about his true principles of action.
Well, if they want to call it that, that is an incredibly deceiving simplification.
The category called test contained utterances that were spoken with what appeared to be the purpose of deceiving the system.
Thus, there were no "scientific results" to offset the device of deliberately deceiving the physician.
But appearances are deceiving; this is not an acceptable principle.
Similarly, ravens were known to be very helpful for polar bear hunters who could benefit from their deceiving capacities.
Alternatively, the lie is popularly endorsed (for instance, in deceiving an enemy) and official hands are wiped clean.
Meanwhile, the newly created homesteads remained temporary daytime shelters or, in some cases, simply devices for deceiving the campaigners.
Incorporating elements of scientific botany, these publications have much to say about "deceiving the eye" with naturalistic representations.
The fact that there is not a coherent discussion of such points is somewhat deceiving.
One may make the argument that, by exploiting a latent micro-state to create a miracle, the divine is deceiving us substantially about our surroundings.
They are really designed to impress, by deceiving, the voters.
The fact that psychologists are (in)famous for deceiving participants is likely to magnify participants' uncertainty and second-guessing.
It is because the information provided to the visual system is ambiguous, and in this situation, also deceiving.
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