🔹单词：fraud

音标：/frɔːd/（英） / frɑːd/（美）
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🔹词性：

名词（noun）

🔹核心意思：

1. 欺诈，诈骗（行为）
    → the crime of deceiving someone in order to get money or goods illegally.
2. 骗子，冒名顶替者
    → a person who pretends to be something that they are not, in order to deceive people.

🔹例句讲解：

1. He was arrested for credit card fraud.
    他因信用卡诈骗被捕。
    👉（表示“诈骗行为”）
2. The company was found guilty of tax fraud.
    这家公司被判犯有逃税欺诈罪。
    👉（具体类型的“欺诈”）
3. I felt like a fraud pretending to know so much about art.
    我假装懂很多艺术知识，觉得自己像个骗子。
    👉（比喻义，“冒充者、假装的人”）
4. The email turned out to be a fraud designed to steal passwords.
    那封邮件原来是个用来窃取密码的骗局。

🔹词源小知识：

来自拉丁语 fraus（欺骗、诡计），
➡️ 所以 “fraud” 与 “deceive” 同义域，都与“骗术、虚假”有关。

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✅ 一句话记忆法：

fraud = fake for money（为了钱而装假的行为）