sucker是什么意思

sucker

英 ['s?k?] 美 ['s?k?]

sucker 吸盤

suck,抽吸，-er,表物。引申詞義吸盤。

sucker (n.): "young mammal before it is weaned," late 14c., agent noun from suck. Slang meaning "person who is easily deceived" is first attested 1836, American English, on notion of naivete; but another theory traces the slang meaning to the fish called a sucker (1753), on the notion of being easy to catch in their annual migrations (the fish so called from the shape of its mouth). As a type of candy from 1823; especially "lollipop" by 1907. Meaning "shoot from the base of a tree or plant" is from 1570s. Also the old name of inhabitants of Illinois.
sucker (v.): "to deceive, to make a dupe of," 1939, from sucker (n.) in the related sense. Related: Suckered; suckering.

4. It is becoming harder for the authorities to sucker healthy banks into taking over smaller ones.: 當(dāng)局要想哄騙經(jīng)營狀況良好的銀行接管小銀行是越來越難了。

5. If you tell those folks the truth, they won't vote for you. But if you sucker them, they'll vote for you twice over.: 如果你告訴這些人實(shí)情，他們是不會選你的。但是如果你耍點(diǎn)兒伎倆，他們會不止一次推舉你。