bomb hoax
collocation炸弹虚报
The police received a bomb hoax and evacuated the building.
警方接到炸弹虚报，疏散了大楼。
骗局；恶作剧
hoaxes — plural of hoax
故意用来欺骗或捉弄的东西。；愚弄人
故意用来欺骗或捉弄的东西。
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
The news about the alien invasion turned out to be a hoax.
关于外星人入侵的新闻原来是一场骗局。
用法提示：此处hoax为名词，意为'骗局'，作表语。
The students played a clever hoax on their teacher by pretending to be robots.
学生们假装成机器人，对老师玩了一个巧妙的恶作剧。
用法提示：此处hoax为名词，意为'恶作剧'，作宾语。
Many historians believe that the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is a notorious hoax.
许多历史学家认为《锡安长老会纪要》是一个臭名昭著的骗局。
用法提示：此处hoax为名词，意为'骗局'，作表语。
比 hoax 口语化；可指无害玩笑，也可指恶意欺骗，而 hoax 常指故意制造的虚假消息或事件。
通常无恶意，仅为逗乐；hoax 则强调欺骗性，可能带来实际损害。
较正式，偏重欺骗的行为或状态；hoax 多指具体的骗局或假象这一事物。
多涉及金钱或法律，恶意和后果更重；hoax 不一定图财，也可能是玩笑或恶作剧。
强调‘冒充’和‘假’的一面，比 hoax 更常指物或状况，较少指事件性骗局。
炸弹虚报
The police received a bomb hoax and evacuated the building.
警方接到炸弹虚报，疏散了大楼。
恶作剧电话
The fire brigade wasted time on a hoax call.
消防队在一个恶作剧电话上浪费了时间。
精心策划的骗局
The crop circle was an elaborate hoax.
那个麦田怪圈是个精心策划的骗局。
揭穿骗局
Scientists quickly exposed the hoax.
科学家们很快就揭穿了这个骗局。
上当受骗
Many people fell for the hoax on social media.
许多人在社交媒体上上了这个骗局的当。
与hoax同属信息失真话题，但强调错误，不一定有欺骗意图。
与hoax一样出于欺骗，但多指系统性的虚假信息传播。
广为流传但无法证实的离奇故事，常被误当作真实事件。
用秘密阴谋解释事件的说法，未经证实，常与hoax一起被讨论。
以模仿或恶搞为主，若过于逼真也可能被误认为真实新闻。
你不忠的爱是我唯一相信的骗局。
Taylor Swift's song “hoax” treats a failed relationship as a hoax: something that promised to be true but turned out to be fake.
泰勒·斯威夫特的歌曲《hoax》把一段失败的感情当作一场骗局：它曾让你以为是真的，结果却是假的。
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