engañar

Cómo se engañaban a sí mismos, en brazos de un mesianismo ensordecedor.	How they cheated themselves, in the arms of a deafening messianism.
No sé si engañaban con cables hace sesenta años.	I don't know if they bluffed with wire 60 years ago.
Pensé que mis ojos me engañaban, pero mis oídos decían la verdad.	I thought my eyes deceived me, but my ears bespoke the truth.
Pero ella ya sabía que la engañaban ¿no?	But she already knew about the cheating, right?
Grito para fines engañó a Adán, que no engañaban inútil!	Scream for purposes deceived Adam, who deceived not futile!
Ellos solo se engañaban a sí mismos.	They were only cheating themselves.
Se engañaban a sí mismos.	They were deluding themselves.
Pero las apariencias engañaban.	But appearances were deceptive.
Bueno, yo tuve mi cuota de barbudos y no engañaban a nadie, excepto a mí.	Well, I've had my share of beards, and they didn't fool anyone except for me.
Esos resultados engañaban.	Those results were deceiving.
Bajo el falso pretexto de limpiar el terreno, para la construcción de viviendas, silenciosamente engañaban a todos.	Under the false pretext of clearing the land, for housing construction, quietly deceived all.
Si fuera yo, no me engañaban.	Well, I wouldn't have been fooled.
Se dejaban engañar por los guardias de otros castillos, que les engañaban con todo tipo de promesas.	They were tricked by the guardians of other castles who deluded them with various promises.
Las idas y venidas de Hugo Chávez entre Caracas y La Habana no engañaban a nadie.	No one was fooled by the constant travelling between Caracas and Havana of Hugo Chavez.
Por lo que yo veía las personas constantemente se engañaban para conseguir lo que querían.	As far as I could see, people were always conning each other to get what they wanted.
Se consideraba a veces que distribuidores automáticos mecánicos y sus aceptadores de moneda engañaban dispositivos y otras timos.	Mechanical slot machines and their coin acceptors were sometimes considered to be cheating devices and other scams.
Muchos de los diputados vacilantes vieron claramente asimismo que los gobiernos los engañaban como querían.	And many of the vacillating members also saw clearly that they had been egregiously duped by the Governments.
Pero estaba cansado de investigar si los esposos engañaban a sus esposas y cosas por el estilo.	But I was kind of tired of trying to find out if husbands were cheating on wives and stuff.
Sin embargo, en lugar de estar agradecidos, querían acumular más, y mentían y engañaban con tal de lograrlo.	However instead of being grateful they wanted to accumulate more and would lie and cheat in order to do so.
Cómo abandonaban a sus hijos para salvar a otros, como engañaban a sus mujeres para defender a otras más desvalidas.	How they abandoned their children to save others, as they cheated on their wives to defend other most disadvantaged.