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Change log entry 79065
Processed by: richwarm (2023-08-17 23:46:41 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 72932 - submitted by 'bezier_benzoate' >>
Seen on the front page of Baidu Baike in an announcement:
近期有不法分子冒充百度百科官方人员,以删除词条为由威胁并敲诈相关企业。在此严正声明:百度百科是免费编辑平台,绝不存在收费代编服务,请勿上当受骗!
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Editor: "fooled and misled" strikes me as Chinglish. The redundancy (fooled + misled) seems to be mimicking the Chinese (上當 + 受騙), and there are more idiomatic English expressions that better convey the meaning.

I mean, if I fell for this Baidu scam, then "I was fooled and misled" is not the phrase I'd use.
Diff:
# 上當受騙 上当受骗 [shang4 dang4 shou4 pian4] /to be fooled and misled/
+ 上當受騙 上当受骗 [shang4 dang4 shou4 pian4] /to be duped; to get scammed/
By MDBG 2024
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