fleeced
だまし取られた
解説 Definition
動詞 fleece の過去形・過去分詞で、金品をだまし取る、または法外な料金を請求してぼったくるという意味を表す。受け身では「詐欺に遭って金を取られた」「不当に高い金額を払わされた」という状態を指し、被害を述べる文脈でよく使われる。
Fleeced means tricked or cheated out of money or valuables. It is an informal word and often suggests that someone was treated unfairly in a clever or dishonest way.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず基本形 fleece を「金をむしり取る」として覚え、fleeced はその過去分詞で、受け身の形で非常によく出ると押さえると定着しやすいです。典型は I got fleeced. / tourists were fleeced. で、「だまされた」一般ではなく「金を取られた・ぼったくられた」に焦点があります。scammed や cheated と近いものの、fleeced は料金・買い物・商売の場面と相性がよく、overcharged と並べると「不当に高く払わされた」まで一気に思い出せます。
Remember the base form fleece, which is often used for taking money from someone unfairly. The form fleeced is very common in sentences like I got fleeced or tourists were fleeced. That helps you link it to paying too much, being cheated in business, or being badly overcharged. It is closer to scammed for money than to general cheated.
例文
The tourists were fleeced by a dishonest taxi driver who charged triple the normal fare.
観光客たちは、通常料金の3倍を請求する悪質なタクシー運転手にだまし取られました。
She realized too late that she had been fleeced by an online scam.
彼女は、ネット詐欺にだまし取られていたことに遅れて気づきました。
Many elderly people were fleeced out of their savings by the fraud ring.
多くの高齢者が、その詐欺グループに貯金をだまし取られました。
fleeced の類義語・関連語
fleeced の語源・成り立ち Etymology
fleeced は fleece「羊毛を刈る、羊毛」から来た語で、fleece は古英語 fleos「羊の毛皮・刈り取った羊毛」に由来します。羊から毛をすっかり刈り取る像が比喩的に広がり、人から金をむしり取る、つまり「だまし取る・ぼったくる」という意味になりました。
Fleeced comes from fleece, from Old English fleos, meaning sheep's wool or a wool covering. The basic image is something covered with soft wool. In English, the word later developed figurative uses as well, but the root idea is still the fleece of a sheep; fleecy is related.
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