facade
noun /fəˈsɑːd/
/fəˈsɑːd/
(also façade)
- the front of a building
（建筑物的）正面 - a classical facade
古典立面
- a classical facade
- [usually singular] the way that somebody/something appears to be, which is different from the way somebody/something really is
（虚假的）表面，外表 - She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
她设法继续装作漠不关心的样子。 - They seem happy together, but it’s all a facade.
他们在一起似乎很幸福，但这都是假象。 - Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.
表面的繁华掩盖了这座城市的肮脏和贫穷。
- She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
词源mid 17th cent.: from French façade, from face ‘face’, on the pattern of Italian facciata.