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单词 foist
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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).
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