charade

英 [ʃəˈrɑːd]

美 [ʃəˈreɪd]

n.  明显的伪装; 做戏; 装模作样; 打哑谜猜字游戏

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.18799 / COCA.18388

牛津词典

noun

• 明显的伪装；做戏；装模作样
  a situation in which people pretend that sth is true when it clearly is not
  1. Their whole marriage had been a charade─they had never loved each other.
     他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏——他们从未相爱过。
• 打哑谜猜字游戏
  a game in which one player acts out the syllables of a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is
  1. Let's play charades.
     咱们来玩打哑谜猜字游戏吧。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 明显的做作;一眼看穿的伪装
  If you describe someone's actions as acharade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
  1. I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...
     我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。
  2. The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.
     联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。
• N-UNCOUNT 看手势猜字谜游戏
  Charadesis a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.
  1. She and her three brothers played charades.
     她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。

英英释义

noun

• a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
• a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
  Synonym:parodylampoonspoofsendupmockerytakeoffburlesquetravestypasquinadeput-on

双语例句

• The charade was over: they could hear his feet striking sharply on the asphalt going away.
  他玩的把戏结束了，人们可以听到他的脚步响亮地敲击着沥青路渐渐远去。
• The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.
  联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。
• They would have never gone through this whole charade in the first place.
  他们不会首先问询这件事的。
• The movement is an elaborate charade, which is too inconsistent and impractical to succeed.
  这场行动是一个精心策划的装模作样之举，太过矛盾和不切实际而难以成功。
• You must not refine too much upon this charade.
  你切不可过分推敲这个字谜。
• I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade
  我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。
• There's no need for you to continue this charade of defending her.
  已经没有必要继续为她辩护了。
• So this was all a charade?
  所以这全都是在演戏吗？
• My Nigerian friendships are all but over Facebook keeps up the charade and I have no contact with anyone from secondary school.
  我在尼日利亚的那些友谊基本上都结束了，虽然在Facebook上看起来还存在，但我现在和中学时期的朋友没有任何联系。
• This charade of me being under arrest if you want to.
  在逮捕我的情况下玩这种猜谜游戏。