- 1矇騙；唬弄
To hoodwink someone is to trick them in a clever way, so that you gain and they do not see the trap until it is too late. You might hoodwink a buyer with a false story, or hoodwink a crowd with a neat lie that sounds careful.
To hoodwink someone ishoodwink一個人就是 to trick them in a clever way用巧妙的方式騙他們，so that you gain讓你得利 and they do not see the trap until it is too late而他們直到太遲才發現陷阱。You might hoodwink a buyer你可能會hoodwink一個買家 with a false story用一個假故事，or hoodwink a crowd或是hoodwink一群人 with a neat lie that sounds careful用一個聽起來很周到的漂亮謊言。
It is a little formal — you meet it in news and novels more than in playground talk.
It is a little formal這個字有點正式—you meet it in news and novels你會在新聞和小說裡遇到它 more than in playground talk多過在操場上的閒聊。
Though actually, the first picture (from the 1500s) was not a clever lie at all: it meant to cover someone’s eyes, like a blindfold, from hood plus wink, a closing of the eyes. Today almost nobody means a real cloth over the face; they mean the trick.
Though actually不過其實，the first picture最早的畫面 (from the 1500s)（來自十六世紀） was not a clever lie at all根本不是什麼聰明的謊言：it meant to cover someone's eyes它的意思是遮住某人的眼睛，like a blindfold就像蒙眼布一樣，from hood plus wink來自hood加上wink，a closing of the eyes也就是閉上眼睛的意思。 Today今天 almost nobody means幾乎沒有人是指 a real cloth over the face臉上真的蒙一塊布；they mean the trick他們指的是那個騙局。
There is a noun, a hoodwink, built from the verb, but the verb is the one you will actually meet.
Today今天 almost nobody means幾乎沒有人是指 a real cloth over the face臉上真的蒙一塊布；they mean the trick他們指的是那個騙局。There is a noun, a hoodwink有一個名詞a hoodwink，built from the verb是從動詞造出來的，but the verb is the one you will actually meet但你實際上會遇到的是動詞。
core核心畫面
組成hood (the head covering on a coat or cloak) + wink (to close the eyes). In the 1500s it meant “to blindfold.” The noun comes from the verb.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hoodwinkverb/ˈhʊdwɪŋk/
- 1
archaicTo cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.
- Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hang-mans hand; as he did, whoſe friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt, that he might heare it read, was found ſtarke dead vpon the ſcaffold, wounded onely by the ſtroke of imagination.
- It is the cuſtome of theſe maydes when they walke in the ſtreetes, to couer their faces with their vailes verecundiæ cauſâ [because of modesty], the ſtuffe being ſo thin and ſlight, that they may eaſily looke through it. For it is made of a pretty ſlender ſilke, and very finely curled: ſo that becauſe ſhe thus hoodwinketh her ſelfe, you can very ſeldome ſee her face at full when ſhe walketh abroad, though perhaps you earneſtly deſire it, but only a little glimpſe thereof.
- 2
To deceive using a disguise; to beguile, dupe, mislead.
- For, (having many times torne the vaile of modestie) it seemed, for a laste delight, that she delighted in infamy: which often she had used to her husbands shame, filling all mens eares (but his) with reproch; while he (hoodwinkt with kindnes) lest of all mẽ [men] knew who strake him.
- [T]o have to do with you, is to have to do with a man of business who is not to be hoodwinked.
- 3
archaicTo hide or obscure.
- Good my Lord, giue me thy fauour ſtil, / Be patient, for the prize Ile bring thee too / Shall hudwinke this miſchance: therefore ſpeake ſoftly, / All's huſht as midnight yet.
- The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked—when the harp of the poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno, and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning.
- 4
obsoleterareTo close the eyes.
- [W]herfore haue you ſate ſtill, and comply'd and hood-winkt, till the generall complaints of the Land have ſqeez'd you to a wretched, cold and hollow-hearted confeſſion of ſome Prelaticall riots both in this and other places of your Booke.
hoodwinknoun/ˈhʊdwɪŋk/
- 1
An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
- What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.
- Here were old buildings, and mazy webs of wandering; soft cliff was handy, dark wood and rushing waters, tangled lanes, fuzzy corners, nooks of overhanging, depths of in-and-out hood-winks of nature, when she does not wish man to know everything about her.
- 2
obsoletegamesThe game of blind man's buff.
- Whereas the Mountaine Nymphs, and thoſe that doe frequent / The Fountaines, Fields, and Groues, with wondrous meriment, / By Moone-ſhine many a night, doe giue each other chaſe, / At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Priſon-baſe, / With tricks, and antique toyes, that one another mocke, / That skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke.
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