v.欺騙；哄騙；愚弄

n.愚弄人；惡作劇

All hoax viruses are essentially chain letters. 所有的欺騙性病毒基本都是連續(xù)性的字母。

Some posters on Chinese bulletin boards and blogs have argued that Mr Zhou was perhaps merely a hapless tool in a hoax perpetrated mainly by bureaucrats. 一些中文的貼子和博客提出，周也許不過是官方欺騙鬧劇中的一個不幸的工具而已。

Mainstream critics argue that the entire affair is a hoax. 主流的批評家批評整件事是一場愚弄。

Authorities call the apparent hoax reprehensible, but even with just five feet. 官方稱這是明顯的愚弄行為，應該遭受斥責，但是仍然還有五只斷腳。

They considered the phone call a hoax. 他們認為那個電話是惡作劇。

I never thought my hoax would go so far and I felt awful when some of you got so excited about knowing the title. 我從來沒有想到我的惡作劇會這么不可收拾，你們?yōu)榈弥聲老膊灰褧r我真覺得糟糕透了。