Make-believe
n. 假装, 伪装, 假装的人\\na. 假装的
📖 牛津释义
make-believe
n [U]
(a) pretending or imagining things; fantasizing 假装; 想像; 幻想
indulge in make-believe 沉溺於幻想中.
(b) things thus imagined 想像之物
live in a world of make-believe 生活在幻想的世界中
[attrib 作定语]
a make-believe world 想像的世界.
🧩 词语组成解析
make
[mek]
vt. 做，制造;生产，制定;使成为;使产生;
vi. 开始;尝试;行进;增大;
n. 制造;生产量;性格;形状，样式;
believe
[bɪ'liv]
v. 信任;料想;笃信宗教;
vt. 相信;以为，认为;对…信以为真;信任;
🗣️ 情景例句
Richard, isn't that too much to ask of your mother?
Richard，那是不是太麻烦你母亲啦？
You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.
你虽无老山羊，却出卖小山羊。
Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?
某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？