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1. I had a video call with my family back home.

我和家人视频通话了。

2. I often send voice messages to my grandmother

我经常给奶奶发语音信息。

3. I was scammed out of my life savings.

我的毕生积蓄都被诈骗走了。

4. I can't believe I fell for their trick.

我真不敢相信我上了他们的当。

5. He's just a cheap crook.

他是一个卑鄙的骗子。

【口语积累】

1. 视频通话 video call

我们普通的“通话”叫做phone call，“视频通话”就叫做video call，“语音通话”则是voice call。“视频聊天”可以用video chat。不方便通话时，我们常常会留“语音消息”，英文叫做voice message，“文字消息”则是text message。

I had a video call with my family back home.

我和家人视频通话了。

Let's video chat later tonight.

今晚晚点我们视频聊天吧。

We video chat with each other every weekend on WeChat.

我们每周都会微信视频聊天。

I often send voice messages to my grandmother because she doesn't know how to type.

我经常给奶奶发语音信息，因为她不会打字。

2. 诈骗 fraud

英语中有好几个都可以表示“诈骗”，deceive是比较广义的诈骗，fraud和swindle强调涉及金钱的诈骗，scam强调通过诡计或骗术来欺骗，而cheat更多用于“作弊”和“感情里的不忠”。这几个词里面，fraud只能作为名词使用，“被诈骗”了可以说是victim of a fraud，swindle和scam都可以搭配swindle/scam sb out of sth。

I can't believe it. I was scammed out of my life savings.

我简直不敢相信，我的毕生积蓄都被诈骗走了。

He fell victim to an online scam and lost a significant amount of money.

他成为网上骗局的受害者，损失了大笔钱。

After wiring the money, he realized he had been scammed by the fake investment scheme.

汇款之后，他意识到自己被那个假投资计划诈骗了。

She deceived him into handing over all his savings

她把他所有的积蓄都骗到手了。

He cheats at cards.

他玩牌时作弊。

3. 上当 fell for the trick

除了说“被欺骗”，我们还常常用“上当了”这个表达，英文可以说fell for the trick/scam，be fooled，be tricked，be taken in等等。

I can't believe I fell for their trick.

我真不敢相信我上了他们的当。

I received a phone call from someone claiming to be from the bank, and I fell for their scam.

我接到一个自称是银行工作人员的电话，我上了他们的当。

I trusted him and lent him a large sum of money, only to find out later that I was fooled.

我信了他，借给了他一大笔钱，结果发现自己上了当。

Don’t be taken in by products claiming to help you lose weight in a week.

有些产品宣称能让你一周内减重，千万别上当。

4. 骗子 fraud

没错，“骗子”同样可以用fraud来表示，也可以拼写为fraudster，cheat也可以作为“骗子”，也可以写作cheater。但其他表示“诈骗”的词，想要表达“骗子”的含义，则一定要有所变化。如：swindle加上r变成swindler，deceive加r变成deceiver，scam双写m加er变成scammer，trick加ster变成trickster等。

That man is a fraud.

那人是个骗子。

He was a liar and a cheat.

他谎话连篇，是个骗子。

He's just a cheap crook.

他是一个卑鄙的骗子。

The police arrested a group of scammers who were involved in identity theft.

警方逮捕了一群涉嫌身份盗窃的骗子。

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