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charade

noun
🔊/ʃəˈrɑːd/
🔊/ʃəˈreɪd/
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  1. [countable] a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it clearly is not明显的伪装；做戏；装模作样 synonym pretence
    • Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏，他们从未相爱过。🔊🔊
    • charade of (doing) something We had to go through this whole charade of holding auditions for the part.我们不得不把这一部份从头至尾试演了一遍。
    Extra Examples
    • I suggest you give up this little charade of yours.我建议你不要再玩你这种小把戏了。
    • She struggled to maintain the charade of not being afraid.她竭力装出不害怕的样子。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • elaborate
    • ridiculous
    • little
    • …
    verb + charade
    • continue
    • go along with
    • go through
    • …
    preposition
    • charade of
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  2. charades
     [uncountable] a game in which one player acts out the syllables of a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is打哑谜猜字游戏
    • Let's play charades.咱们来玩打哑谜猜字游戏吧。🔊🔊
    Topics Games and toysc2
    3. Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from modern Provençal charrado ‘conversation’, from charra ‘chatter’, perhaps of imitative origin.