诈（詐）zhà ❶ （欺骗） cheat; deceive; swindle: 敲 ～ blackmail; extort; ～ 取钱财 cheat sb. out of his money; get money by fraud; swindle sb. out of his money; 尔虞我 ～ each trying to cheat or outwit the other
❷ （假装） pretend; feign: ～ 穷 feign to be poor; ～ 死 feign [fake] death; play dead; ～ 败 feign defeat; 兵不厌 ～。 All is fair in war.
❸ (用假话试探， 使对方吐露真情) bluff sb. into giving information; trick sb. into telling the truth: 别拿话来 ～ 我。 Don't try to draw me out.; Don't try to trick me with words into betraying the secret.
◆诈病 malinger; malingering; 诈唬 bluff; bluster; 诈骗 defraud; swindle; 诈欺 deception; fraud; 诈降 pretend to surrender; feign surrender 诈❶deceive;cheat;swindle
❷feign;pretend
兵不厌～。There can never be too much deception in war. or:All’s fair in war.or:War allows deceit.or:Nothing is too deceitful in war./欺～deceive;cheat/敲～extort;blackmail;racketeer/讹～blackmail; extort under false pretense/尔虞我～each trying to cheat or outwit the other; deception; cheating and deceiving each other/～病feign illness |