| 词汇 | masquerade |
| 释义 | masquerade noun uk /ˌmæs.kərˈeɪd/ us /ˌmæs.kəˈreɪd/ masqueradenoun (BEHAVIOUR)[ C or U ] behaviour that is intended to prevent the truth about something unpleasant or not wanted from becoming known: 伪装;掩饰 They kept up the masquerade of being happily married for over 30 years.30多年来他们一直假装婚姻很幸福。 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 masqueradenoun (PARTY)(alsomasquerade ball, masquerade party) a party or dance where people wear masks(= coverings over part or all of the face) or other disguises(= clothes that hide who you are or make you look like someone else): When she agrees to accompany him to a masquerade, she does not know who exactly she is dancing with. The convention finished with a masquerade ball. She encountered a famous poet, dressed as a monk, at a masquerade in London. An entire gallery is devoted to photographs of the masquerade ball held in the Winter Palace in February 1903. I have accepted an invitation for us to attend a masquerade ball given by friends of Lord and Lady Matlock. They throw a big masquerade party that includes handing out animal masks to the children. According to Luis Buñuel, Dalí and Gala went to a masquerade party in Chicago dressed as the Lindbergh baby and the kidnapper. Celebrations, parties & special occasions afterparty April Fool's Day baby shower bachelor party backslapping Day of the Dead dinner dinner dance Easter egg hunt fayre luau masked ball mela Mother's Day New Year's Eve tea party trick-or-treating Valentine's Day wassail wassailer masquerade | American Dictionarymasquerade noun[ C ] us/ˌmæs·kəˈreɪd/ a party or dance in which people wear masks (= coverings for the face): There were dozens of masquerade balls, parades, street dances, and fancy dress parties. A masquerade is also a false show or appearance: I’m afraid we will not have a fair election but another masquerade. masquerade verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ] us/ˌmæs·kəˈreɪd/ to pretend or appear to be: In this business, there are a lot of unqualified people masquerading as experts. Examples of masquerademasquerade It would be a world containing demons masquerading as cats. At the masquerade, the eight men run into the ballroom at the stroke of midnight and scare the gathered revelers. Here, it is the masquerade that allows flexibility and freedom of manoeuvre. That does not mean that the end users of the data are geochemists, though some of us have masqueraded under that banner. Necrotizing soft tissue infection masquerading as cutaneous abscess following illicit drug injection. They produce a peculiar narrative order, his specific way of creating loyalty in the reader masquerading as historical narrative. One can miss it nowadays in the masquerade of forms that is going on. However, when a piece of theoretical work is dismissed as 'highly personal', it seems that an essentially conceptual problem masquerades as a mere terminological dispute. It may well be that subtle differences in the social worlds of identical twins in comparison to fraternal twins are still masquerading as genetic influence. It might be alleged that these figures were modern whigs masquerading behind the name ' old whig ' but such a view seems unconvincing for three reasons. Social categories that masquerade as aesthetic facts simply reinscribe essentialist notions of music that precede analysis. Others see law's ability to construct authority out of thin air as a trait to be admired rather than a dangerous masquerade. Humans masquerading as personified animals or birds figured prominently in this new circus work performing across species, along with some strikingly innovative technology. One possibility is that empathy is not a single topic; it is simply an umbrella term masquerading as a discrete topic. Could it perhaps be an office brochure masquerading as a monograph? 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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