| 词汇 | fob off |
| 释义 | fob off 1. get sth. false or inferior accepted as good or real; trick or deceive sb. into buying or accepting 以假货或次货骗人；欺骗某人购买或接受 * Actually the foreign stamps displayed in the window were of very little value, but he had found that they could be fobbed off upon children. 说实在的，橱窗里展出的外国邮票并没有什么价值，但他发现那些邮票却可以拿来哄骗小孩。 * The peddler fobbed off pieces of glass as diamonds. 这小贩鱼目混珠，以玻璃充当钻石骗人。 2. put aside ; not really answer but get rid of 丢在一边；置之不理 * Her little brother asked where she was going, but she fobbed him off with an excuse. 她弟弟问她去哪里，但她却借故不答。 3. put sb. off by deception or trickery 用欺骗、诡计打发某人；搪塞某人 * He tried to fob us off with the excuse that he had been ill, and so had overlooked the matter. 他企图以病为借口欺骗我们，说因为生病才忽略了这件事。 * When the creditors demanded their money, they were fobbed off with a promise to pay them when he received his rents at the end of the month. 当债主们来索钱时，他以月底拿到租钱就付款的谎言搪塞他们。 |
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