con

英 [k?n] 美[kɑn]

TEM8中低頻詞核心詞匯

復數:?cons;第三人稱單數:?cons;過去式:?conned;過去分詞:?conned;現在分詞:?conning;

con 騙局

來自短語confidence man的縮寫，反諷，被信任的人欺騙。

con (n.1): "negation" (mainly in pro and con), 1570s, short for Latin contra "against" (see contra).
con (n.2): "study," early 15c., from Old English cunnan "to know, know how" (see can (v.1)).
con (adj.): "swindling," 1889, American English, from confidence man (1849), from the many scams in which the victim is induced to hand over money as a token of confidence. Confidence with a sense of "assurance based on insufficient grounds" dates from 1590s.
con (n.3): a slang or colloquial shortening of various nouns beginning in con-, such as, from the 19th century, confidant, conundrum, conformist, convict, contract, and from the 20th century, conductor, conservative.
con (v.1): "to guide ships," 1620s, from French conduire "to conduct, lead, guide" (10c.), from Latin conducere (see conduce). Related: Conned; conning.
con (v.2): "to swindle," 1896, from con (adj.). Related: Conned; conning.

1. Well, so much for the producers. But what of the con-sumers?: 好吧，關于生產商就講這么多，那關于消費者呢？

2. Slimming snacks that offer miraculous weight loss are a con.: 有神奇減肥效果的瘦身點心是一個騙局。

3. She travels con-stantly, moving among her several residences around the world.: 她經常旅行，穿梭于她在世界各地的多處住所。

4. He was lost in the con-templation of the landscape for a while.: 有一會兒，他怔怔地注視著周圍的景物。