charlatan
/ˈʃɑːlətən/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈʃɑːrlətən/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈshär-lə-tən/ (ame, mw)
charlatan — 名詞
- charlatansingular
- charlatansplural
1. someone who falsely claims to be an expert — often a doctor, healer, or scholar
江湖郎中
假裝有專業知識以行騙的人
someone who falsely claims to be an expert — often a doctor, healer, or scholar — in order to gain money, trust, or attention from people who do not know better.
Amihan exposed the village doctor as a charlatan after his pills made her grandmother worse.
Amihan 揭穿了那位村醫是個江湖郎中，因為他開的藥讓她奶奶的病情更嚴重。
expose [someone] as a charlatan — typical pattern for unmasking
The art dealer turned out to be a charlatan who had been selling fake paintings for years.
那位藝術經紀人結果是個騙子，多年來一直在販售假畫。
turn out to be a charlatan — common collocation
João warned his uncle not to trust the charlatan who promised to cure his back pain with magnets.
João 警告叔叔別相信那個聲稱能用磁鐵治好背痛的江湖郎中。
History is full of charlatans who claimed to speak with the dead for a small fee.
歷史上充斥著收一點小錢就聲稱能與死者對話的騙子。
Newspapers in the 1800s often warned readers about charlatans selling miracle tonics from horse-drawn wagons.
1800 年代的報紙常警告讀者，要當心那些用馬車兜售神奇藥水的江湖郎中。
- quack
informal; specifically a fake doctor
- fraud
broader — any deceiver, not only those claiming expertise
- impostor
someone pretending to be a specific person or hold a specific role
- mountebank
very formal/literary; a flamboyant traveling fraud
文法句型
a charlatan
expose someone as a charlatan
用法筆記
Often used of people pretending to have medical, scientific, or spiritual expertise. Carries a tone of moral judgment — stronger than 'fake' or 'phony'.