cheat: suggests using deceit or trickery that is intended to escape observation: ~ed on the written examination. trick伎俩花招戏法,表示调皮或无赖的欺骗roguish deception cheat欺瞒是deceive欺骗的一种,是为了躲避注意不被发现的欺骗,让人以为某物不存在或某事未发生,词组cheat on表示对某人不忠,如I can't stand you cheat on me我不能容忍你对我不忠,如how can you cheat on your wife, when she have loved you so你怎么可以对妻子不忠? cheat on me你欺骗了我,是几首歌的名字
cozen: implies artful persuading or flattering to attain a thing or a purpose: always able to ~ her doting grandfather out of a few dollars. artful聪明圆滑 又如a clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt一个聪明的律师能诱使(哄骗)囚犯承认有罪
defraud: stresses depriving someone of what is rightfully his or her own and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth: her own lawyer ~ed her of her inheritance. deprive剥夺使丧失 pervert完全扭曲to twist or distort completely
swindle: implies large-scale cheating by means of misrepresentation or abuse of confidence chiefly in order to attain money: widows ~d of their savings by con artists.