foist
/ˈfɔɪst/verb
with obj.(foist someone/thing on)
1- impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on把…强加于, 把…硬塞给:
beers are foisted on a public unaware of their inferior ingredients.
把配料低劣的啤酒强卖给不知情的公众。
1.1
foist someone/thing into
introduce someone or something surreptitiously or unwarrantably into暗中(或擅自)把…加进:he attempted to foist a new minister into the conference.
他想擅自把一个新牧师塞进会议。
词源
mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'palm a false die, so as to produce it at the right moment'): from Dutch dialect vuisten 'take in the hand', from vuist (see FIST).