sucker

• n. 吸管；乳儿；易受骗的人
• vi. 成为吸根；长出根出条
• vt. 从……除去吸根
• n. (Sucker)人名；(德)祖克尔

suck,抽吸，-er,表物。引申词义吸盘。

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.

1. Keep giving us your money, sucker!

继续把你的钱给我们，傻瓜！

来自柯林斯例句

2. I'm such a sucker for romance.

我对浪漫毫无招架之力。

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3. I've always been a sucker for men with green eyes.

我一向对绿眼睛男人着迷。

来自《权威词典》

4. It is becoming harder for the authorities to sucker healthy banks into taking over smaller ones.

当局要想哄骗经营状况良好的银行接管小银行是越来越难了。

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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.

如果你告诉这些人实情，他们是不会选你的。但是如果你耍点儿伎俩，他们会不止一次推举你。

来自柯林斯例句