发音：[dup]
例句：
- To dupe somebody actually means to trick, fool, or deceive somebody. For example, the sci-fic writer tries to dupe the public into believing that aliens do exist.
- In practice, the word dupe can also be used as a noun—I think it is insulting to think that all those candidates are just dupes or fools. In this case, dupe refers to someone who is easily fooled or tricked.
- The immigrant was duped because he believed everyone is honest and trustworthy, but it turned he was wrong.
- They say they were duped into investing $500,000 each into what they thought was a viable company.
- Some fans have lashed out online, saying they feel they were duped and misled by the prominence of Jimmy’s photo on the cover.
- A London art dealer who duped investors and then fled to an island in the Pacific was sentenced on Monday to seven years in prison by a federal judge in Manhattan.
解释：
- dupe这个单词可以做名词用，其表示“ someone who is easily fooled or cheated”这一含义，即“被愚弄的人/容易受骗的人”，与“fool/victim”等构成近义词。
- 当然，这个单词多用作动词使用，表示“trick or fool somebody”这一含义，即“愚弄/欺骗”，与“fool/deceive/cheat”这些单词构成近义词，并且在使用中与介词into搭配：dupe someone into doing something”，表示“欺骗某人做某事”。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- He was ridiculed of being such an easy dupe of the trick. (他被嘲笑是一个如此容易受到愚弄的人。)
–News - From this perspective, the real wrongdoers were not those who sold risky products at inflated prices but the dupes who bought them on behalf of so many savers and pensioners.（从这个角度来看，真正的不法分子不是那些以高价出售风险产品的人，而是代表如此多的储户和养老金领取者购买这些产品的受害者。）
–Society - The old man was easily duped into buying a counterfeit.（这个老人很容易地被欺骗，买了一个赝品。）
–News - He was duped into giving them his credit card. （他上当受骗把信用卡交给了他们。）
–News - We are in an age where investors are duped into believing they can become millionaires by sinking their money into cryptocurrency-related companies or platforms.（我们正处于一个投资者被欺骗的时代，相信他们可以通过将资金投入加密货币相关公司或平台而成为百万富翁。）
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