忽悠人家
English translation: trick sb. into doing sth.
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| 15:58 Feb 28, 2009 |
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|  Selected response from: Adsion Liu Canada Local time: 21:04 | ||||||
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| 4 +2 | trick owners into paying more |
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| 3 | tricks customer in paying more, cheats on the customer. (to bilk) |
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26 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2trick owners into paying more Explanation: 忽悠 是北方特別是東北方言，意爲 trick sb into doing sth，即用蒙的办法来让某人去做某事，从而达到自己的目的。 In this context, it's to trick the owners to paying more about the on-topic service. "人家" is an impersonal pronoun in Chinese, like "on" in French, and "one(s)" in English. See following for reference 忽悠 [hū you] to rock to sway to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water) to flutter (of flag) to trick sb into doing sth to dupe to con -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 27 mins (2009-02-28 16:26:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- trick owners into paying more --> trick the owners into paying more, which would be better... |
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