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charade n.看手势猜字谜游戏；易识破的伪装 (1) 你有玩过看手势猜字谜游戏吗?(2) 面试不过是个幌子。(3) 整个场面就像手势字谜游戏那样矫饰做作。(4) 他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏，他们从未相爱过。 When you want things to appear different than they really are, you might be tempted to put on a charade, like a charade of happiness when you are really feeling down. Charade is also the name for a silently-acted clue in the game called charades — which originally wasn't silent. It used indirect descriptions of the words; the non-speaking version was called dumb charades.

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英 [ʃə'rɑːd] 美 [ʃə'reɪd] (1) Did you ever play charade before.(2) The interviews were just charade.(3) The whole scene was as unreal as a charade.(4) Their whole marriage had been a charade, they had never loved each other. A charade is something done just for show. Your devotion to vegetarianism would be a charade if you actually ate cheeseburgers when no one was looking. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]明显的做作；一眼看穿的伪装 If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.   [usu sing]  [disapproval]I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]看手势猜字谜游戏 Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase. She and her three brothers played charades.她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。

英语单词	charade
英美音标	英 [ʃə'rɑːd] 美 [ʃə'reɪd]
中文释义	n.看手势猜字谜游戏；易识破的伪装
英语例句	(1) Did you ever play charade before. (2) The interviews were just charade. (3) The whole scene was as unreal as a charade. (4) Their whole marriage had been a charade, they had never loved each other.
中文例句	(1) 你有玩过看手势猜字谜游戏吗? (2) 面试不过是个幌子。 (3) 整个场面就像手势字谜游戏那样矫饰做作。 (4) 他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏，他们从未相爱过。
vocabulary简明	A charade is something done just for show. Your devotion to vegetarianism would be a charade if you actually ate cheeseburgers when no one was looking.
vocabulary扩展	When you want things to appear different than they really are, you might be tempted to put on a charade, like a charade of happiness when you are really feeling down. Charade is also the name for a silently-acted clue in the game called charades — which originally wasn't silent. It used indirect descriptions of the words; the non-speaking version was called dumb charades.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]明显的做作；一眼看穿的伪装 If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone. [usu sing] [disapproval] I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade... 我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。 The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality. 联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]看手势猜字谜游戏 Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase. She and her three brothers played charades. 她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。

Charade Game Called Actions Players Word 英 ʃə'Rɑːd] 美