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cheatern. 1.swindler骗子。 tame cheater: gentle cheater,i.e.(cant term)gamester’s decoy,card-sharper’s decoy who lured the innocent card-player into a game in which he could befleeced温顺的骗子;(行话)赌棍的搭档,赌牌行骗者使用的诱饵。 △2H.Ⅳ.2.4.104 (97):“He’s no swaggerer,host-ess,a tame cheater,”他不是大喊大叫的,女店主,他只是个温顺的骗子(又译:帮人行骗的搭档)。 2. (blunder for) escheator,fiscal officer whose duty itwas to collect forfeitures and exact fines for the king骗子,(误为)财务官(职务是为国王接收充公财产和勒索罚款)。 △2H.Ⅳ.2.4.109(102):“Cheater,call you him? Iwill bar no honest man my house,nor no cheater,butI do not love swaggering,by my troth.”财务官,你这样叫他吗? 凡是规矩人到我屋里来,我都不挡驾,包括财务官,但是,老实说,我可不喜欢大喊大叫。(按:cheater又可直译为“骗子”。) △Wiv.1.3.75(69):“I will be cheaters to themboth,and they shall be exchequers to me.”我要去做她们两个的接收大员,她们就是我的金库。 |