Hebelievedthat herkindnesswasmerelya camouflage for herrealintentions.他认为她的好心不过是为了掩饰她的真实意图。
camouflage| American Dictionary
camouflage
noun[U]
us/ˈkæm·əˌflɑʒ,-ˌflɑdʒ/
aconditionin which theappearanceof someone or something whenplacedagainst abackgroundmakes thepersonor thingdifficultorimpossibletosee:
The leafhopper is a littlegreeninsectthat uses camouflage toblendin with thecolorsof theleaves.
Inmilitaryuse, camouflage is anappearancedesignedtohidesoldiersandequipmenton theground,esp. from beingseenbyenemyaircraft, by making themlookliketheirsurroundings.
camouflage
verb[T]
us/ˈkæm·əˌflɑʒ,-ˌflɑdʒ/
tohidesoldiersandequipmenton thegroundfromenemiesby making themlookliketheirsurroundings:
As previously noted, camouflaging self-presentations and preoccupation with peer acceptance create a situation in which youths invest little time or effor t in academic pursuits.
However, their dominance camouflages cultural differences in the perception of the historical landscape and local practices of historical identity.
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We hypothesized that receipt of involved- suppor tive parenting would be negatively associated with camouflaging self-presentations and preoccupation with peer group acceptance.
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First, conversation must not be so purely formal that the truth, if disagreeable, becomes camouflaged.
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Thus, the fetishization of machines in the culture of technology, like the fetishization of the commodity, camouflages the necessary activity of skilled workers.
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In addition, we explored an ancillary hypothesis that suppor tive sibling relationships would occasion more similarity in siblings' externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, camouflaging self-presentations, and concern about peer acceptance.
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In this study, we tested the hypothesis that camouflaging one's academic abilities or interests is a risk factor for the development of externalizing and internalizing symptoms.
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After the experiments, stimulation ar tifacts were camouflaged in the broadband data by substituting ar tifact data samples by a linear interpolation between the adjacent time windows.
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Existing research has not focused on the pathways through which camouflaging self-presentations and concern about peer acceptance may act as risk factors for the development of externalizing symptoms.
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As with externalizing symptoms, we analyzed a model that included direct paths from older and younger siblings' camouflaging self-presentations and preoccupation with peer acceptance to their internalizing symptoms.
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Oceans and vegetation on land have camouflaged warming by absorbing more than half of man-made emissions so far.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
How many inter-union disagreements have been camouflaged by some other description?
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The debate is camouflaged with an enormous amount of political correctness.
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What is true of the ordinary citizen camouflaged in blue is equally true of the ordinary citizen camouflaged in khaki.
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