1. The hoaxer had sent the police on a wild-goose chase. 那个捣蛋的人让警方白白搜索了一番。
2. The local newspapers dressed up the candidate as a hoaxer. 当地报纸把这个候选人描述成一个骗子。
3. Meldrum—who has followed Bigfoot lore since he was a boy—had heard that Freeman was a hoaxer, "so I was very dubious, " he recalls. 麦德伦从小就很注意大脚传说，也听说弗里曼是个骗子：「所以我半信半疑。」
