诱导

[Pedroski]

A man sees an ad outside a clothes shop. '6折‘ so he goes in and chooses 2 t-shirts. When he comes to pay, the girl won't give him a discount. She says '6折出售的服装是过季服装，而T恤衫属于当季服装，是不打折的’

 

懂先生感到服装店在诱导消费者，非常生气。

 

I assume '诱导’ means here 'mislead', not 'entice' . I can't see why you would be angry about being enticed, as long as you are not mislead.

My dictionaries tell me ’诱导‘ = 劝诱;引导， not 误导. I have seen ‘诱导误导’ as an idiom meaning 'mislead'. Maybe this '诱导‘ is just half of that idiom?

[陳德聰]

诱导 seems like "lure" to me. I imagine dangling a tasty treat in front of an animal to get it to walk into a trap. Mislead might not be the most accurate, but definitely that is what's happening in this situation.

[Pedroski]

Thanks for that. The definitive Chinese English dictionary has yet to be writ!

[skylee]

I don't think 誘導誤導 is an idiom, although I note that some online C-E dictionaries say it is. I think it sounds a bit stupid.

[陳德聰]

^ This.