sob story

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Pitch them a sob story and they often swallow it whole.
讲个催人泪下的故事给他们听，他们往往就能信以为真。
I hope this isn't sounding like a terrible sob story, I don't mean it to be at all.
我希望这听起来不像一个很悲伤的故事，我完全不希望变成那样。
Now, they're hacking into people's accounts and impersonating them to ask for money, usually with some weird sob story.
现在，他们侵入人们的帐户，冒充这些人，通过一些怪异的骗取同情的故事向别人要钱。

They pulled into Enterprise, piled out of the car, and poured out their sob story to an Enterprise employee who listened intently.
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Turns out he's a bit of a sucker for a sob story.
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It's usually followed by a sob story of war and revolution, and how the prince is in need of a Westerner to help him get tens of millions of dollars out of his country.
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a story or piece of information that someone tells you or writes about himself or herself that is intended to make you feel sympathy for that person

You describe what someone tells you about their own or someone else's difficulties as a sob story when you think that they have told you about it in order to get your sympathy.