| 释义 |
pyramid schemen.（名词）- A fraudulent money-making scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to others above them in a hierarchy while expecting to receive payments from people recruited below them. Eventually the number of new recruits fails to sustain the payment structure, and the scheme collapses with most people losing the money they paid in.金字塔式骗局，传销骗局，老鼠会：一种欺骗性的赚钱计划，被吸收的成员向其上阶层付款，同时也期待下阶层的人向自己付款。到最后新吸收的人会无法承受这种付款结构，随后赚钱计划破灭，大部分的人都会失去自己所投资的钱
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