charlatan
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。
charlatan + promises of medical cure — typical medical context
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。
plural use — historical context
- expose a charlatan
- denounce someone as a charlatan
- a self-proclaimed charlatan
- a charlatan and a liar
- 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'.
常見錯誤
同根字
- charlatanism名詞
- charlatanry名詞
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- charlatan and liar
- charlatan and fraud
常用片語
- expose as a charlatan
- denounce as a charlatan
- self-proclaimed charlatan