sucker

n. 吸管；乳儿；易受骗的人

vi. 成为吸根；长出根出条

vt. 从……除去吸根

n. (Sucker)人名；(德)祖克尔

中文词源

sucker 吸盘

suck,抽吸，-er,表物。引申词义吸盘。

sucker (n.): "young mammal before it is weaned," late 14c., agent noun from suck. Slang meaning "person who is easily deceived" is first attested 1836, American English, on notion of naivete; but another theory traces the slang meaning to the fish called a sucker (1753), on the notion of being easy to catch in their annual migrations (the fish so called from the shape of its mouth). As a type of candy from 1823; especially "lollipop" by 1907. Meaning "shoot from the base of a tree or plant" is from 1570s. Also the old name of inhabitants of Illinois.
sucker (v.): "to deceive, to make a dupe of," 1939, from sucker (n.) in the related sense. Related: Suckered; suckering.

4. It is becoming harder for the authorities to sucker healthy banks into taking over smaller ones.: 当局要想哄骗经营状况良好的银行接管小银行是越来越难了。

5. If you tell those folks the truth, they won't vote for you. But if you sucker them, they'll vote for you twice over.: 如果你告诉这些人实情，他们是不会选你的。但是如果你耍点儿伎俩，他们会不止一次推举你。