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单词 dissemble
释义
dissemble
verb[I]
formal
uk
/dɪˈsem.bəl/us
/dɪˈsem.bəl/
tohideyourrealintentionsandfeelingsor thefacts:
掩盖，掩饰（动机、感情、真相等）
Heaccusedthegovernmentof dissembling.他指责政府掩盖真相。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to act as if something is true when it is not
  • pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise.
  • make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce.
  • play at somethingUKThe children are playing at cops and robbers.
  • role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping.
  • fakeShe's only faking being ill.
  • feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Faking & pretending
  • affect
  • air guitar
  • assume
  • believe
  • changeling
  • charlatan
  • cry
  • false modesty
  • falsifiable
  • falsify
  • feign
  • fraud
  • mountebank
  • out-bluff
  • passsomethingoff assomething
  • phoney
  • play-act
  • professed
  • purport
  • quack
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Hiding and disguising
(Definition ofdissemblefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdissemble

dissemble
Here is a woman for whom it is not only impossible todissemblebut fatal to try.
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Or, which amounts to the same thing, it would force them todissembleor effectively to adopt assumed identities for public purposes.34 32.
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That is, children who expect a supportive response to their emotional displays are more likely to express emotion, whereas children who expect a negative interpersonal response report dissembling emotional expression.
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However, it is all very well todissembleone's love, but why kick us downstairs?
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He never dissembled, and to such men much may be forgiven.
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But if that is so youdissembleyour love very strangely by throwing this sprag into the works.
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They have elevated media manipulation to an art form: they have leaked, briefed and dissembled.
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Perhaps it was right todissembletheir love, but why did they kick us downstairs?
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Is it not they who are dissembling—because they would be spending on assembling the assembly, with all the costs that that bureaucracy would involve?
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If they have any such good feeling they are very good at dissembling their love for the self-employed.
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They were dissatisfied with the reply, which they found to be dissembling.
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He has managed todissemblehis love in the past very successfully.
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I am not trying todissemblebetween different types of investment.
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Perhaps it was right todissembleyour love.
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To say that they are "dissembling deliberately" means that they are deliberately lying.
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