大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 confidence trick
释义：
confidence trick 骗局；欺诈
例句：
Technically, rogue AV is often hard to detect because the software is essentially a confidence trick.
从技术上来讲，流氓反病毒软件之所以常常很难被发现，是由于这种软件实际上是一个骗局。
Like many financial firms, only more so, Enron built its success upon a confidence trick.
The manufacturers now say they were the victims of fraud and a confidence trick.
Patch and cover up of a confidence trick that beats Sub Prime and Bernie Madoff for sheer temerity!
This potted history may tell what happened, but it raises a question: how did Enron manage to pull off its confidence trick?
Andrew Dilnot, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, acknowledges that hypothecation may be a way of raising more revenue, but sees it largely as a confidence trick.
While specific cases of death or injury as a result of the use of the devices can't be proved, their sale was a "callous confidence trick, " the judge said.
Clive Bates, director of the anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health, told BBC News Online that the whole concept of low tar cigarettes was a "complete confidence trick" played on the consumer.
"One of our senior officers comments that he cannot believe that anyone is going to re-employ this dangerous charlatan and confidence-trick merchant, " a report from MI6 said.
