charade
noun /ʃəˈrɑːd/
/ʃəˈreɪd/
- [countable] a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it clearly is not
明显的伪装；做戏；装模作样 - 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。 - charade of (doing) something We had to go through this whole charade of holding auditions for the part.
我们不得不把这一部份从头至尾试演了一遍。
- I suggest you give up this little charade of yours.
我建议你不要再玩你这种小把戏了。 - She struggled to maintain the charade of not being afraid.
她竭力装出不害怕的样子。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- elaborate
- ridiculous
- little
- …
- continue
- go along with
- go through
- …
- charade of
- Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
- charades[uncountable] 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
打哑谜猜字游戏 - Let's play charades.
咱们来玩打哑谜猜字游戏吧。
- Let's play charades.
词源late 18th cent.: from French, from modern Provençal charrado ‘conversation’, from charra ‘chatter’, perhaps of imitative origin.