- Your wife gave you socks for Christmas and you smiled happily and kissed her? You, my friend, know how to dissimulate — that is, cover up your true feelings. Unless you happen to really, really like socks.
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- vi. 掩饰；假装；装糊涂
- vt. 掩饰；假装；装糊涂
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1. They were decked out in tracksuits, seemingly to dissimulate their true function.
他们都穿着田径服，似乎想掩饰他们的真实职能。
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2. He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.
不知道如何掩饰的人不能为政。
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3. Stretch marks can take a very long time to fade, and when they do, the healing use to be inadequate, producing scars that can be very hard to dissimulate.
妊娠纹可能需要很长的时间消失，而当他们这样做了，愈合使用是不够的，生产的伤痕，可很难掩饰。
- dissimulate (v.) 1530s, from Latin dissimulatus, past participle of dissimulare "to disguise, hide, conceal, keep secret," from dis- (see dis-) + simulare "to make like, imitate, copy, represent," from stem of similis "like, resembling, of the same kind" (see similar). Related: Dissimulated; dissimulating.
dis·simu·late / dɪˈsɪmjuleɪt ; NAmE dɪˈsɪmjuleɪt / verb [transitive , intransitive ] dissimulate(sth) ( formal) to hide your real feelings or intentions, often by pretending to have different ones 掩盖，掩饰（真实感情或意图） SYN dissemble ▶ dis·simu·la·tion / dɪˌsɪmjuˈleɪʃn ; NAmE dɪˌsɪmjuˈleɪʃn / noun [uncountable ] dissimulate dissimulates dissimulated dissimulating dis·simu·late / dɪˈsɪmjuleɪt ; NAmE dɪˈsɪmjuleɪt / dis·simu·la·tion / dɪˌsɪmjuˈleɪʃn ; NAmE dɪˌsɪmjuˈleɪʃn /
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