charlatan

英 [ˈʃɑːlətən]

美 [ˈʃɑːrlətən]

n.  假充内行的人; 骗子

复数：charlatans　

GRE医学

BNC.21347 / COCA.21841

牛津词典

noun

• 假充内行的人；骗子
  a person who claims to have knowledge or skills that they do not really have

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。

英英释义

noun

• a flamboyant deceiver
  Synonym:mountebank

双语例句

• He was a scientist who claimed to have a miracle cure and was then exposed as a charlatan.
  他是个声称有神奇疗法的科学家，后来被揭露出是个骗子。
• A charlatan murders without a knife.
  庸医杀人不用刀。
• It is just as likely that he was a charlatan peddling hocus-pocus.
  他过去恰恰很可能是个挨家挨户行骗的江湖医生。
• That charlatan is anything but a doctor.
  那江湖骗子决不是医生。
• I hasten to add, to anticipate possible misconception, that he was not the least of a charlatan.
  为了避免可能引起的误解，我得赶紧指出，他决不是一个惯于招摇撞骗的江湖郎中。
• He was sure that he was dealing with a charlatan.
  他真以为自己遇上了江湖骗子。
• George Bush: You mean that OLD KOOK, that CHARLATAN?
  你是说那个老怪物，那位庸医吗？
• Several speakers at the three-day conference denounced the Nobel prize-winning monetarist economist, Milton Friedman, as a charlatan who had had a pernicious influence on capitalism over the past four decades.
  在为期三天的会议上，有数位演讲者公开指责诺贝尔奖获得者、货币学派经济学家米尔顿弗里德曼（MiltonFriedman）是个江湖骗子，称他在过去40年里给资本主义带来了恶劣的影响。
• He was exposed as a charlatan.
  他被揭穿，原来是个骗子。
• It was difficult to discern that despite all the abstruse vocabulary the professor was really a charlatan.
  很难辨明那个教授虽然有很多深奥的词汇，实际上却是一个冒充内行的人。