hoax的意思|hoax的解释-里氏词典

hoax [hәuks]

vt. 欺骗, 哄骗, 愚弄

n. 愚弄人, 恶作剧

hoax

[ noun ]

something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

subject to a playful hoax or joke

<verb.social>

play a joke on

pull someone's leg

Hoax \Hoax\, n. [Prob. contr. fr. hocus, in hocus-pocus.]
A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or
story; a practical joke. --Macaulay.

Hoax \Hoax\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hoaxed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hoaxing}.]
To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to
impose upon sportively. --Lamb.

"Basically, it's been established as a hoax," mounted police Inspector Art Crosby said in Ottawa.
Officials had concluded the first call was apparently a hoax after precautionary inspections revealed no sign of tampering.
"I regret that my concern for the poor and the environment was so dishonestly misinterpreted and misused to perpetrate a cruel hoax on 4 million Americans who are already broken beyond any measure of understanding," Sheen said in a statement.
A Pan Am security manager said Tuesday that before the Flight 103 bombing, the airline investigated a warning that one of its U.S.-bound flights would be a target but determined it was a hoax.
If the yellow-rain charges were a hoax, we were among the hoaxers.
Rep. Steve Bartlett (R., Texas) called the legislation "a cruel hoax which would mandate one-benefit-fits-all."
"For many people, the promise of tax-deferred savings is a cruel hoax," the study said.
Bush's aides confirmed last week that the president fell victim to a hoax when he accepted a telephone call from a man purporting to be Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
In announcing the scholarship, attorney Marvin Geller recalled the "old scars of racial tension" opened by the hoax.
But officials of all three major resistance groups characterize the pullout as an elaborate hoax.
Space Travel insisted it has a contract with the Soviets and said the Tass news report calling the sweepstakes a hoax resulted from a misunderstanding.
He was charged with false imprisonment, possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, perpetrating a bomb hoax and making threats to kill.
Presidential Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in Washington on Thursday that Bush returned a phone call last month to a man he thought was the Iranian president, but it turned out to be a hoax.
President Bush was able to use the words "cruel hoax" in rejecting Friday's offer, but there is no reason to assume this rebuff was the last word.
Coast Guard spokesmen said the distress call sounded legitimate and they had no reason to believe the call was a hoax.
Blair testified he couldn't have committed the hoax because he was asleep.
The event has sparked renewed international debate on the Holocaust revisionist movement that alleges the Holocaust was a hoax.
"If Mr. McKinnon is right, then attorneys Mason and Maddox and Rev. Sharpton have been consciously perpetrating a hoax, not only on the black community but on all the people of the state of New York," Abrams said.
Organizers said they believe an artist was responsible for the threat, which they view as a hoax.
Central Londonderry was sealed off Monday after police noticed two suspicious beer barrels, but reopened after midday when it was concluded to be a hoax.
The United States initially said the blaze caused heavy damage to the plant, but later news reports said U.S. officials had decided the fire was a hoax.
Investigation showed the men to be accomplices in a hoax, the officials said.
The disclosure of the hoax came amid a flurry of recent reports on hostage-related developments.
The caller left a number, and Mr. Bush was intrigued enough to call back and carry out a conversation before determining the call was a hoax.
"It was just a hoax," a spokesman for the Royal Ulster Constabulary said Sunday afternoon, but it was one that took two days to clear.
She said a woman involved in the hoax had telephoned her answering service and was given the publicist's messages after somehow providing proper coded identification to the switchboard.
"I should be very grateful that people created this hoax long enough for me to be born, grow up and raise enough money to make the expedition," Plaisted said.
The officials said Gadhafi's purpose in building a second plant would be to divert some poison gas production from Rabta even though the purported March fire at the factory, about 40 miles south of Tripoli, evidently was a hoax.
White House officials declined to go into details of the conversation. "Suffice it to say it was a hoax phone call and that's all that matters," Fitzwater said.
He said he was glad that he had accepted what turned out to be a hoax telephone call from someone posing as Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani.

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