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facade

noun
🔊/fəˈsɑːd/
🔊/fəˈsɑːd/
(also façade)
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  1. the front of a building（建筑物的）正面
    • a classical facade古典外观
    Topics Houses and homesc2, Buildingsc2
  2. [usually singular] the way that somebody/something appears to be, which is different from the way somebody/something really is（虚假的）表面，外表
    • She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.她设法继续装作漠不关心的样子。🔊🔊
    • They seem happy together, but it’s all a facade.他们看起来在一起很开心，但这全是门面。
    • Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.表面的繁华掩盖了这座城市的肮脏和贫穷。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French façade, from face ‘face’, on the pattern of Italian facciata.