sham
sham 英 [ʃæm] 美 [ʃæm]
n. 假装；骗子；赝品 vt. 假装；冒充 vi. 假装；佯装
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- A sham is a fake. If you frequently order products advertised on late-night, hour-long television commercials, you’ve probably ended up with at least one item that was a sham. All-purpose, industrial strength stain remover, anyone?
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- n. 假装；骗子；赝品
- vt. 假装；冒充
- vi. 假装；佯装
- adj. 假的；虚假的；假装的
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1. "Excuse me," I mutter. "I have to get this sham over with.
“对不起，”我咕哝着说，“我得把假装的这一套做完了事。”
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2. Both real and sham acupuncture worked better than having no treatment at all.
真实的和虚假的针刺两者都比完全没有治疗的作用要好。
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3. I can only hope that this will spread like wildfire and the disinformation campaign being run by BP as well as our own federal government is exposed for the sham it is.
我仅希望这个采访可以像野火一样蔓延并且曝光由英国石油公司 和我们的联邦政府操作的虚假信息活动正如他们本身一样都是骗子。
- sham (n.) 1670s, "a trick, a hoax, a fraud," also as a verb and an adjective, of uncertain origin; the words burst into use in 1677. Perhaps from sham, a northern dialectal variant of shame (n.); a derivation OED finds "not impossible." Sense of "something meant to be mistaken for something else" is from 1728. The meaning "false front" in pillow-sham (1721) is from the notion of "counterfeit." Related: Shammed; shamming; shammer. Shamateur "amateur sportsman who acts like a professional" is from 1896.
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