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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 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 ExamplesI 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
- …
- continue
- go along with
- go through
- …
- charade of
- 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
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from modern Provençal charrado ‘conversation’, from charra ‘chatter’, perhaps of imitative origin.