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 make-believe 添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 假装, 伪装, 假装的人

a. 假装的




    make-believe
    [ noun ]
    1. imaginative intellectual play

    2. <noun.cognition>
    3. the enactment of a pretense

    4. <noun.act>
      it was just pretend
    [ adj ]
    1. imagined as in a play

    2. <adj.all>
      the make-believe world of theater
      play money
      dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish


    Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a.
    1. Feigned; insincere. ``Make-believe reverence.'' --G.
    Eliot.

    2. Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom
    he often talked.
    [PJC]

    make-believe \make"-be*lieve`\, n.
    A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere
    pretense; a fiction; an invention. ``Childlike
    make-believe.'' --Tylor.

    To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M.
    Arnold.

    1. 'That was not make-believe.
    2. A condominium owner who lost a legal war to keep his pickup truck in front of his home now parks a make-believe tank, complete with fake machine gun, outside.
    3. All seven participating astronauts and several other personnel received make-believe injuries in the four-hour pad test.
    4. We think of toyland as a fantasy world of make-believe, but the most successful playthings always reproduced reality as the child experieced it.
    5. "Nah, it's all in fun," said the retired trucker who now lives in Boulder, Colo. "This place is all make-believe.
    6. Like most Western get-ups, the president's make-believe Western gear will be capped by a belt buckle of grand proportions.
    7. The student, a third-grader, had drawn a picture of himself in jail, looking forlorn with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Above the drawing, he listed his make-believe crime: "Murder."
    8. This is the FBI!" The make-believe bad guys and witnesses who inhabit Hogan's Alley are amateur "role players" hired by the hour through a commercial talent agency.
    9. One youngster drew a picture of himself behind bars and wrote that murder was his make-believe crime.
    10. Buffeted by conflicting bids for our Yuletide attention, we scarcely know which is the way to cosy naturalism and which to state-of-the-art make-believe. The Pagemaster, promising on paper but flimsy on film, prompts another question.
    11. "The zoo is especially interesting for the kids," said Howard. "Yesterday, they got to see the make-believe animals at Disneyland.
    12. If Disney can build fantasy parks glorifying a make-believe mouse, Melvin Wilcox says Christians should be able to re-create Jerusalem in West Texas to tell the good news of Jesus Christ.
    13. Farley took pictures of Black and used them to "document" their make-believe life, Bird said.
    14. Analysts could go back to working out next year's probable earnings per share and deciding whether an investment made sense on that basis, rather than on make-believe projections. This is by no means the whole story.
    15. The make-believe emergency landing gave the astronauts and mission control center in Houston vital experience in making split-second decisions.
    16. That, police say, was just one prop in Hunt's pose as an astronaut during a period of make-believe that carried him through several states, speaking engagements and marriages.
    17. The participants all fell to the ground in make-believe death.
    18. It's one thing getting filmgoers to watch the make-believe violence of a "Nightmare on Elm Street."
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