爱华网广东的一位蔡女士发现最近家里的米饭“不要嚼”，等她把“大米”从嘴里拿出来凑近一看，才看清原来自家的大米都是用卫生纸卷的。蔡女士后来告诉警方，她是在街边小贩手里买的，当时这个小贩保证他的大米是本地大米，而且“天然无化学成分”，从某种意义上说，这个小贩确实没有说谎。
新闻：
Woman shocked to bite into dish of Chinese food and find 'fakerice made out of rolled up pieces paper' - and street vendor toldher not to worry because it was safe
A woman has claimed that small pieces of rolled up paper(pictured) are being sold as rice on the streets of China,according to local news sources.
姑且不谈论这条新闻的真实性。但想一想，在中国，好像很多事情没什么不可能！以前也听说过什么大米是用胶做的，根本嚼不动，也根本不能当成米饭吃呀！还听说过市场有卖假的猪耳朵，也就是根本不是猪的耳朵；这些无良商家，真是中国人自己害自己人。这类“假货”用英文该怎么说呢？
fake n. 假货；骗子；假动作/ adj. 伪造的
假大米就可以用文中的“fake rice” 表示；
【fake】
1. ADJ A fake fur or a fake painting, for example, is a fur orpainting that has been made to look valuable or genuine, usually inorder to deceive people. 伪造的
2. N-COUNT A fake is something that is fake. 膺品
3. V-T If someone fakes something, they try to make it lookvaluable or genuine, although in fact it is not. 伪造
4. V-T If you fake a feeling, emotion, or reaction, you pretendthat you are experiencing it when you are not. 假装
5. V to coil (a rope) on deck 在甲板上卷(绳子)
6. V-COUNT Someone who is a fake is not what they claim to be,for example, because they do not have the qualifications that theyclaim to have. 骗子
词组短语：
fake commodity假货
head fake以头部做出假动作
fake fur人造革；假裘皮；仿造皮毛
Fake goods 假货，山寨产品
fake and inferior goods 伪劣商品 ; 假冒伪劣商品 ;
Fake and shoddy goods 假冒伪劣商品 ; 冒充伪劣商品
同根词：
词根：fake
fakery n. 伪造；假货
faker n. 摊贩；骗子；伪造者，伪装者
说到假货，赝品，还有一个词汇一定得提一下——counterfeit。
【counterfeit】
n. a copy that is represented as the original
v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive
adj. not genuine; imitating something superior
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