| 词汇 | concoct |
| 释义 | concoct verb[ T ] uk /kənˈkɒkt/ us /kənˈkɑːkt/ to make something, usually food, by adding several different parts together, often in a way that is original or not planned: 调制，配制（通常指食品） He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of leftover food.他以各种剩余食材为原料配制成了一道美味佳肴。 to invent an excuse, explanation, or story in order to deceive someone: 编造，捏造，虚构（借口、解释或故事） He concocted a story about working late at the office.他编造谎言说他在办公室工作到很晚。 to say something not true in order to deceive lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says. tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree. lie through your teethHe lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it. fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful. misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married. deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion. Preparing food batch cooking biga bind breadmaking butter buttered clarify glazed grate ingredient jerk julienne restuff rice rustle something up scoby sieve stir toss whip You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Mixing and mixtures Lies, lying & hypocrisy concoct | American Dictionaryconcoct verb[ T ] us/kənˈkɑkt/ to invent a story or excuse, esp. to deceive others: He concocted the story because he did not want to do his chores. To concoct is also to make something new from different things: He concocted a tasty stew from the leftovers. Examples of concoctconcoct In her panic to get away with it to parents - who are useless - she concocted the story. Accordingly, the regime concocted its own solution to the consumption problem. You have to have some dialogue that is concocted and some genuinely communicative situations as well. Anecdotes made up the basic elements in all sorts of illegal literature, and they could be concocted in endless combinations. To seize these hastily concocted and untried preparations after discovery of their lethal effect, or to prosecute the manufacturer criminally, is not enough. We were not concocting a cranky, hare-brained thesis calculated to produce an" instant best-seller". Enacting this law was a sick social experiment concocted by shortsighted criminologists and votehungry lawmakers. The crucial difference here is that the puritan-minded passions are seen concocting an actual conspiracy against their king. There were so many suspicions that my son concocted the story for some reason best known to himself. When they achieve such power, they do not use it to concoct something on their own. Often, evolutionists use consistency with natural selection as the sole criterion and consider their work done when they concoct a plausible story. The most provocative aspect of the work seeks to concoct a full reality from the properties of internally consistent surfaces. They point out that an unscrupulous analyst can concoct any desired result by the creative specification of prior distributions for the parameters in the model. Such compositions were easy to concoct for any two languages, he argued, whether related or not, because they depended on "general manners of speaking" that are common to diverse languages. A very novel and original concept was thus concocted by way of a criterion for accession to our area of freedom, security and justice. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of concoct 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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