charlatans

英 [ˈʃɑːlətənz]

美 [ˈʃɑrlətənz]

n.  假充内行的人; 骗子
charlatan的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 骗子;假充内行的人
  You describe someone as acharlatanwhen they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
  1. He was exposed as a charlatan.
     他被揭穿，原来是个骗子。

双语例句

• Recent evidence suggests that in America, especially, charlatans prosper on the hustings, while good people flinch from exposing themselves to the humiliations and deceits essential to secure public office.
  最近的证据显示，尤其在美国，骗子在选举中大行其道，好人却不愿意让自己陷入获取公职过程中必不可少的羞辱和欺骗。
• Wang Yangming s Idea of Society-control s through Sage Equality to Ordinary People; On the other hand, even ordinary charlatans are expert at deceiving others by behaving like saints.
  王阳明圣凡平等的社会控制思想相反地，平凡的骗子却善于假扮圣人欺骗大众。
• These rabbis, charlatans, whores, sorehead intellectuals, simpletons, rationalists, fatalists and atheists are obsessed, marginal, mysterious and even unworldly.
  这些拉比、骗子、青楼女子、落魄的知识分子、傻瓜、理性主义者、宿命论者以及无神论者常被（魔鬼、妄想等）迷住心窍。他们是边缘的，神秘的，甚至是远离尘世的。
• The conventional wisdom seems to be that economic forecasting is impossible, and that economic forecasters are charlatans.
  传统的看法似乎是：经济预测是不可能的，而那些经济预测者都是在招摇撞骗。
• On the other hand, even ordinary charlatans are expert at deceiving others by behaving like saints.
  相反地，平凡的骗子却善于假扮圣人欺骗大众。
• In rural South African communities where illiteracy and superstition are rife, charlatans sell herbal concoctions to people with the disease, scorning clinics distributing antiretroviral drugs.
  南非的农村社区存在大量的文盲，迷信猖獗，江湖医生向患病的人们出售草药合剂，嘲笑分发抗逆转录病毒药物的诊所。
• Do you believe the charlatans 'claim that the panaceas they sell can cure all diseases?
  那些江湖郎中声称他们卖的万灵药能治百病，你相信他们吗？
• Charlatans and scoundrels lurk in dark corners, awaiting the unsuspecting. Don't be their prey.
  江湖骗子和坏蛋埋伏在阴暗角落，正等着你上钩。不要成为他们的猎物。
• The success of charlatans, sorcerers, and alchemists and all those who abuse public credulity is founded on errors in this type of calculation.
  牛皮大王、巫士和炼金术士（以及滥用公众信任的所有人）的成功都是因为一般人无法正确评估可能性。
• ( Laughter.) There are great orators that have come along in the world history who have been charlatans.
  （笑声）在世界历史上有一些享有盛名的演说家其实是江湖骗子。