charade

noun

1. 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。
2. 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。

1. N-COUNT 明显的做作;一眼看穿的伪装
   If you describe someone's actions as a charade, 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。
2. N-UNCOUNT 看手势猜字谜游戏
   Charades is 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。

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。
3. She and her three brothers played charades.
   她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。
4. I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
   我拒不跟他们摆出那副可悲的装模作样的姿态。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. We know now that this is a charade.
   我们现在知道，这一切只是假象。
9. Stop this charade you aren't hurt at all.
   别装了，你根本没伤着。
10. How much longer must we sustain this charade?
    我们也要装傻充愣多久？
11. 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。
12. You must not refine too much upon this charade.
    你切不可过分推敲这个字谜。
13. So this was all a charade?
    所以这全都是在演戏吗？
14. Yet, you will have to stage this charade.
    但你必须演这场戏。
15. They had been carrying out a charade of negotiations with the government.
    他们装模作样地在和政府进行谈判。
16. Public announcements of such deals are something of a charade.
    有关此类交易的公告完全就是在打哑谜。
17. Not going through the charade of an assessment.
    不用再浪费时间做评估了。
18. 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。
19. Who dreamed up this charade?
    谁编造了这个故事？
20. Everyone knew who was going to get the job from the start& the interviews were just a charade.
    每个人都一开始就知道谁会得到那份工作&面试只是做个样子罢了。
21. And I've been running a charade all these years.
    而我这些年都是在装腔作势。
22. He has no clue Shanghai was a charade.
    他完全不知道上海只是一个幌子。
23. 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。
24. We can stop this charade and run away together.
    我们能不管他们在一起快活。
25. So you just, uh, go along with the charade.
    那么你就，呃，继续装下去吧。
26. This mad charade is coming to an end.
    这个疯狂的游戏就要结束了。
27. You mean, we have to stage this charade once more?
    你是说，我们不得不再演一次戏？
28. Youngsters observe that the marital relationship of their parents is nothing but an empty charade.
    年轻人发现他们父母之间的婚姻关系不过是一场没有实质内容的猜谜游戏。
29. Just how long do you think we can keep that charade up?
    你认为那样的游戏能持续多久？
30. Forgive us for this charade.
    原谅我们的这出把戏。

noun

1. a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades

2. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

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