2023年的最新一期《经济学人》，关注葡萄酒造假。
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To make a 1945 Mouton Rothschild, mix two parts Château Cos d’Estornel to one part Château Palmer and California cabernet. That was the strategy of Rudy Kurniawan, a wine fraudster, who poured his mixture of wines into old bottles with fake labels and sold them to gullible collectors. In 2014 he was sentenced to ten years in an American prison and ordered to forfeit $20m and to pay another $28m to victims.
要调制1945年的木桐·罗斯柴尔德葡萄酒，需要将两份爱思图尔的酒与一份宝玛酒庄和一份加州赤霞珠混合在一起。这就是葡萄酒骗子鲁迪·库尼亚万的策略，他将混合的葡萄酒倒入贴着假标签的旧瓶中，然后卖给容易上当受骗的收藏家。2014年，他被判在美国监狱服刑10年，并被勒令没收2000万美元，并向受害者支付额外的2800万美元。
第一，学习fraudster的用法。这个词作名词，表示someone who has committed a fraud，诈骗犯。
第二，学习gullible的用法。这个词作形容词，表示too ready to believe what other people tell you, so that you are easily tricked，轻信的，易上当受骗的，例：Plastic replicas of the Greek pottery are sold to gullible tourists. 仿古希腊陶器的塑料复制品被卖给易上当的游客。
第三，学习sentence的用法。这个词作及物动词，表示if a judge sentences someone who is guilty of a crime, they give them a punishment，〔法官〕判决，宣判，判刑，常用搭配为sentence sb to sth，例：Sanchez was sentenced to three years in prison. 桑切斯被判了三年监禁。
第四，学习forfeit的用法。这个词作及物动词，表示to lose a right, position, possession etc or have it taken away from you because you have broken a law or rule，〔因违反法律或规定而〕失去，丧失，被没收，例：By being absent from the trial, he forfeited the right to appeal. 因缺席审判，他丧失了上诉权。
Deported to his native Indonesia in 2021, Mr Kurniawan is now back in business. At fancy dinner parties, clients ask him to create fake fine wines to taste and compare with the real thing. Many tasters reportedly prefer his concoctions. “Mr Rudy Kurniawan is a vinous genius,” one fawned. If a phoney bottle fulfils its purpose—to give pleasure—does it matter that it is not what it claims to be?
库尼亚万先生于2021年被驱逐回他的祖国印度尼西亚，现在又重新开始了他的生意。在高档晚宴上，客户会请他制作假的名酒来品尝，并与真酒进行比较。据报道，许多品酒师更喜欢他调制的酒。“鲁迪·库尼亚万先生是一名葡萄酒天才，”一个人奉承道。如果一瓶假酒达到了它的目的——给人带来快乐——那么它不是它所声称的那个牌子又有什么关系呢?
第一，学习concoction的用法。something, especially a drink or food, made by mixing different things, especially things that are not usually combined，〔尤指不常混合的饮料或食物的〕配制物，调配物，例：He sipped the concoction cautiously. 他小心翼翼地啜着调配出来的酒。
第二，学习vino的用法。这个词作名词，表示wine，葡萄酒。
第三，学习phoney的用法。这个词作形容词，表示false or not real, and intended to deceive someone，假的；冒充的；欺骗的，例：a phoney American accent 装出来的美国口音
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