Dissemble
[dɪ'semb(ə)l]
解释:
(verb.) behave unnaturally or affectedly; 'She's just acting'.
(verb.) hide under a false appearance; 'He masked his disappointment'.
编辑:洛拉--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
(v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
(v. i.) To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.
手打:玛里琳
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Conceal, hide, disguise, cloak, cover.[2]. Feign, simulate, affect.
v. n. Feign, be hypocritical, play the hypocrite, play a part.
整理:韦尔登
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Disguise, conceal, repress, smother, restrain, cloke
ANT:Exhibit, manifest, protrude, vaunt, pretend, simulate, feign, assume, expose,profess, proclaim
丹尼斯校对
解释:
v.t. to represent a thing as unlike what it actually is: to put an untrue semblance upon: to disguise: to conceal: (Shak.) to make unlike.—v.i. to assume a false appearance: to play the hypocrite: to dissimulate—ns. Dissem′blance (rare) want of resemblance: the act of dissembling; Dissem′bler; Dissem′bling.—p.adj. deceiving hypocritical.—adv. Dissem′blingly.
校对:克劳斯
例句:
- Monks cast a look of hate, which, even then, he could not dissemble, at the astonished boy, and sat down near the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- All her efforts were now directed to the dissembling her internal conflict. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- You are only dissembling: you are not in earnest: you love him; you long for himbut you trifle with his heart to make him more surely yours? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But in this, our last interview of friendship, I approached her with a sense of guilt that almost took from me the power of dissembling. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
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