shell game

基本解釋

Now you see why this article is subtitled "Winning the shell game."
現(xiàn)在您應(yīng)該知道為什么本文的子標(biāo)題定為“成功的騙局”了。
There's always someone out there crying bubble, it seems; the trick is figuring out when it's easy money—and when it's a shell game.
總是有一些人從泡沫中逃離，訣竅很簡單：就是賺錢易如反掌的時候，因為這就是一個騙局。
In a way, I'm suggesting that you engage in a shell game, where the time to start the application is moved around but the total is still the same.
作為一種手段，我建議您開發(fā)一個 shell 游戲，它的啟動時間可以有所浮動但是總和保持相同。

College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.
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Smelling a shell game--and a deeper pocket--some of the lawsuits named the successor firm as a defendant.
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Second, the bond raters, accountants, lawyers, regulators, lobbyists, and politicians who aided and abetted in this shell game.
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