charade
charade 英 [ʃəˈrɑ:d] 美 [ʃəˈreɪd]
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名词复数:charades
- A charade is something done just for show. Your devotion to vegetarianism would be a charade if you actually ate cheeseburgers when no one was looking.
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1. So we play out this charade of happy families and most of the time life trundles along much as before, more or less happily.
因此我们维持着这字谜般的快乐家庭，大部分时候生活与以前没什么不同地——多多少少快乐地—— 向前滚动着。
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2. It seems like the whole “New Year’s resolution” thing is a collective lark; a charade that everyone agrees on so as not to admit to actually starting the year with an extended hangover.
所谓的“新年决心”这样看来似乎就是大家一起开的一个玩笑，一个每个人都心知肚明猜谜游戏，即便是下了“决心”，也用不着真的做到下一年不再宿醉。
- charade (n.) 1776, from French charade (18c.), probably from Provençal charrado "long talk, chatter," which is of obscure origin, perhaps from charrar "to chatter, gossip," of echoic origin. Compare Italian ciarlare, Spanish charlar "to talk, prattle." The thing itself was originally a verse word-play based on enigmatic descriptions of the words or syllables according to particular rules.
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