| 词汇 | impostor |
| 释义 | impostor noun[ C ] (alsoimposter)uk /ɪmˈpɒs.tər/ us /ɪmˈpɑː.stɚ/ a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others: 冒名顶替者 He felt like an impostor among all those intelligent people, as if he had no right to be there.他感觉自己在所有那些聪明人中间像个冒牌货——好像自己无权在那儿。 Faking & pretending affect air guitar assume believe bluff someone into something/doing something changeling cry faker false false modesty falsifiable falsify pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act play-acting professed purport quack impostor | American Dictionaryimpostor noun[ C ] (alsoimposter)us/ɪmˈpɑs·tər/ a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others Examples of impostorimpostor He proposed the establishment of bureaucratic review committees to distinguish between the worthy students and the many impostors that allegedly filled the medreses. If backing down or reneging on a policy promise is costly, then such pronouncements help separate resolved states from the many impostors. The political account of enthusiasm, another nonmedical interpretation given to the phenomenon of prophecy and enthusiasm, viewed the enthusiasts as impostors and even conspirators. To her father, her verbal precocity implies that she must be an impostor. But the idea of qualitative superiority cannot be any of the impostors. These impostors can all be accommodated by standard hedonism, which regards pleasure - the sole intrinsic value - as a single kind of feeling whatever its sources or objects. It is clearly recognised that fraud must be eradicated and impostors punished. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The important thing is that individual touch should be kept with the men, so that they should not help men who are impostors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If so, then we are nothing but a bunch of impostors, applying different standards to different countries. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Would he be sufficiently protected if the vendor or the purporting vendor were in fact an impostor? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would have been said, in varying tones of indignation, that he was little better than a hollow impostor and meant to go no further. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The celebrity panelists question the three contestants; the impostors are allowed to lie but the central character is sworn to tell the truth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She then handed over the money to an accomplice of the impostor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the beginning of this poem the fox is anything but a successful impostor, being generally outwitted by far weaker animals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This disorder is defined as a delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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