| 词汇 | emperor-s-new-clothes |
| 释义 | the emperor's new clothesidiom used to describe a situation in which most people praise or seem to believe something that is false or has no value, because they are afraid to go against the general opinion. This refers to a story in which an emperor(= a powerful ruler) is sold new clothes that do not really exist, and nobody except a young boy is willing to say publicly that the emperor is naked: The River of Fire was supposed to be a wall of flame that would race up the Thames at nearly 800 miles an hour, but, like the emperor's new clothes, nobody quite dared to admit that they couldn't see it. Like the little boy in The Emperor's New Clothes, she calmly stated what many were thinking and some were whispering. We have been too willing to accept that the emperor had new clothes. Faking & pretending affect air guitar assume believe bluff someone into something/doing something changeling cry false false modesty falsifiable falsify feign pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act play-acting professed purport quack |
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