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词汇 delude
释义 delude
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈluːd/ us /dɪˈluːd/
to make someone believe something that is not true: 欺骗,蒙骗
delude yourself He's deluding himself if he thinks he's going to be promoted this year.如果他认为今年将获得晋升,那他是在自己骗自己。
She has deluded the public into believing she is something that she is not.
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deceive
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deluded
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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.
Don't delude yourself that this is going to be easy.
The opposition leader said the prime minister was deluding himself over the state of the economy.
The idea that this is all a conspiracy to delude us is, frankly, paranoia.
She said that we need to stop deluding people into thinking they don't need to act now on climate change.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
flimflam
lie
mythologize
perjure
perjury
polygraph
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper
delude yourself
collocation
to believe something that is not true, especially because you want to believe it:
He's deluding himself if he thinks he's going to be promoted this year.如果他认为今年将获得晋升,那他是在自己骗自己。
Maybe we've just deluded ourselves into thinking we can solve the problem.
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delude
He said the public frequently deluded themselves about how environmentally friendly they were.
Don't delude yourself that this is going to be easy.
They have deluded themselves into believing that their response is justified.
Those attending the conference should not delude themselves that the difficult decisions we face can be put off.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Believing
accept
allegedly
article of faith
ascribe something to something
ascription
belief
deluded
evidently
feel it in your bonesidiom
give credence to something
give someone the benefit of the doubtidiom
hold
received
recognize
room
room for doubtidiom
see something in someone/something
seeing is believingidiom
swallow
swear

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True, real, false, and unreal

delude | American Dictionary


delude
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈlud/
to fool yourself into believing something is true because you want it to be true, when it is actually not true:
He’s deluding himself if he thinks he’s going to get that promotion.

Examples of delude


delude
Interestingly, the patients who were not currently deluded performed worse on the autobiographical incidents section of the task compared to those with active delusions.
The authors suggest this underlies impaired self-reflection in the persecutory deluded state.
Consequently, the deluded group may be more likely to make more confabulations generally, as their scripts are poorly represented in their cognitive architecture.
Yet even when there is a clear warning within a plot, we can be deluded by the operatic phenomenon as we experience opera live.
Some were deluded; they did not have cancer.
An image can delude us into thinking we know an object in a way a graph never can.
He played his tricks on women and children, in particular, and deluded them into spiritual crime.
In the subdivided deluded groups, both scriptrelevant and script-irrelevant groups showed a clear difference in the type of story needed to evoke atypical confabulations.
If he thought so, he was dangerously deluded.
I may be deluded, but the case was made for me by looking at the evidence, not by appealing to intuition.
Table 3 shows the performance for the subdivided deluded group.
To compare activations between control and deluded groups we used a random effects model within regions of interest defined by the fixed effects models.
I would love to delude myself with the sweet notion that he has published nothing on the latter phenomenon.
We should not delude ourselves to the contrary.
Yet the capacity to be ' deluded' by early phonographs, given their sonic limitations, would have been exceedingly low.
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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