Word · Frequency #15183
sucker
容易上当的人;傻瓜
核心释义
a person who is easily deceived or taken advantage of
- 1.
吸吮的人或动物,尤其是哺乳动物,未断奶的幼兽
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- 2.
容易上当受骗的人
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- 3.
从灌木或树的根部或下干长出的不需要的枝条,尤其是嫁接植物或树的根茎
An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
- 4.
从植物根部长出的芽
a shoot arising from a plant's roots
- 5.
寄生虫;食客
A parasite; a sponger.
- 6.
用嘴吸饮料的人
a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
- 7.
进行吸附的器官或身体部位,尤其是一些昆虫、青蛙和章鱼身体上的圆形结构,使它们能够粘附在表面上
An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
- 8.
通过吸取某物而工作的东西
A thing that works by sucking something.
- 9.
泵的活塞或桶;也指泵篮的阀门
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- 10.
用于抽取物质的管道
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- 11.
一小块通常为圆形的皮革,中心附有一根绳子,浸水后按压在光滑表面上,由于大气压力而粘附,可以用绳子提起相当重的物体;以前儿童用作玩具
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
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如章鱼和吸盘鱼等动物,利用此类器官附着在其他物体上
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
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北美和东亚的鲤科鱼类,嘴部改造成向下的吸盘状结构,以便在底部沉积物中觅食
Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
吸盘;根出条;萌蘖枝;吸吮者;吃奶的幼畜;吸吮器具;吸管;用吸盘附着的动物(如章鱼、鮣鱼)
用法In use
Don't be a sucker; always double-check a salesperson's claims.
用法提示:sucker 是名词,指容易上当受骗的人。
The street seller spotted the suckers in the crowd and raised the price.
用法提示:suckers 是 sucker 的复数形式,仍表示容易受骗的人。
She felt like a sucker when she realized the online deal was fake.
用法提示:sucker 作名词,在句中是“傻瓜、易上当者”的意思。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- be a sucker for
- 对……毫无抵抗力;容易被……吸引
- She's a sucker for romantic movies.她对浪漫电影毫无抵抗力。
- play someone for a sucker
- 把某人当傻瓜耍
- Don't try to play me for a sucker—I know exactly what you're doing.别想把我当傻瓜耍——我完全知道你在干什么。
- sucker bet
- 稳输的赌局;傻瓜才下注的赌局
- That investment plan is a sucker bet.那个投资计划是一场必输的赌局。
- a sucker born every minute
- 容易上当的人比比皆是;傻瓜随时都有
- He actually believed the email scam — there's a sucker born every minute.他居然相信了那封诈骗邮件——真是随时随地都有傻瓜。
- root sucker
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
sucker 拆成 suck(吸)+ er(者):吸奶的幼崽;也联想容易上当的人像被“吸”走钱财的人。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域:informal 常见场景:casual conversation、social media、informal text messages 此处 sucker 指“容易上当的人”,是比较口语化的说法,多用于日常对话、社交媒体或非正式文字。它通常暗示某人容易被骗或容易轻信别人;在正式写作中较少使用,可考虑换成 gullible person 或 someone easily deceived。
语法说明Grammar Note
常用于口语,表示容易受骗的人。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
读音完全匹配的词:trucker (/ˈtrʌkɚ/) 和同音词 succor (/ˈsʌkɚ/)。注意拼写相近的 soccer (/ˈsɑːkɚ/),它发音不同,元音不同。
用法优先级Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1,建议结合例句记忆,而不是只背中文释义。
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