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hoodwink v. [HOOD-wink]
欺骗，蒙骗；【古】隐瞒
Definition
: to deceive by false appearance: dupe
：通过假面进行欺骗：同义词dupe [duːp] ，欺骗，愚弄
Did You Know?
A now-obsolete sense of the word wink is “to close one’s eyes,” and hoodwink once meant to cover the eyes of someone, such as a prisoner, with a hood or blindfold. (Hoodwink was also once a name for the game of blindman’s buff.) This 16th-century term soon came to be used figuratively for veiling the truth. “The Public is easily hood-winked,” wrote the Irish physician Charles Lucas in 1756, by which time the figurative use had been around for quite a while — and today, the meaning of the word hasn’t changed a wink.
词源词根演化：hood (“to cover”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”) —> hoodwink
wink有一个现代已经过时了的意思：“闭上眼睛”，hoodwink曾经表示“用头巾等蒙眼物将某人的眼睛蒙住，例如对罪犯”。（Hoodwink曾经也是旧时Blindman’s buff游戏的名称。）16世纪的时候，这个词很快被引申为“遮蔽真相”。爱尔兰医生Charles Lucas在1756年写道：“公众很容易被蒙蔽。”从此以后，这个引申意义就一直在使用，至今未发生过丝毫变化。
注：hood：（本意覆盖）头巾，帽兜，遮罩，引擎盖；wink：眨眼，瞬间，闪烁，【过时的用法】闭眼；veil：面纱，面罩，遮蔽
blindman’s buff：蒙眼数人
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_man’s_buff
Women playing blind man’s buff in 1803
Examples
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All would be wise to remember that we’re especially likely to be hoodwinked on April Fool’s Day.
所有人都明白，我们在4月1号愚人节这天尤其容易被愚弄。
注：be wise to：明白，懂得 -
“Madsen’s fascination with space and rockets and technology could hoodwink you into thinking he was a man of the future; you could miss the fact that his obsession was rooted in nostalgia.”
— Jeong May Sori, Wired, March 2018Madsen对太空，火箭与技术的沉迷可能使你误认为他是一个热衷未来的人；你可能错过的真相是他的这种热忱却根植于怀旧之情。
注：fascination：魅力，入迷；obsession：沉迷，困扰，妄想；nostalgia：乡愁，怀旧之情