1.[c]明显的伪装;做戏;装模作样a situation in which people pretend that sth is true when it clearly is not
Their whole marriage had been a charade─they had never loved each other.他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏,他们从未相爱过。
2.[u]打哑谜猜字游戏a game in which one player acts out the syllables of a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is
Let's play charades.咱们来玩打哑谜猜字游戏吧。
How much longer must we sustain this charade?
我们还要忍受多久这种无聊的游戏?
Public announcements of such deals are something of a charade.
有关此类交易的公告完全就是在打哑谜。
It seemed that despite faculty's good intentions, these conversations were something of a charade and I questioned the whole endeavour.
尽管教师们怀着良好的意愿,这些讨论却似乎带着虚伪的色彩,我对这套做法产生了怀疑。
Nothing short of their removal will bring an end to this almighty charade they have been playing with you one for a very long time.
除非清理他们,才能带来这场强力把戏的终结,这场把戏他们已经与你们玩了很长一段时间。
The story about him having a car was just a charade. He only wants to impress us he uses a bike.
关于那个故事他有辆车那是假象,他只是想要人记住,其实是骑自行车
So all this turned out to be a grand charade -- and politicians are great at charades.
所以超级委员会原来就是一场盛大的躲猫猫,而政客们,是最擅长躲猫猫的。
The truth is that designating new features as "experimental" and announcing them only on a blog is just a charade, a marketing gimmick.
事实上,把新的特色产品指定为“试验版”并只在博客上宣布仅仅是一种伪装、一种行销伎俩。
Many people believe that without God, life becomes a meaningless charade, traced out briefly on the surface of an insignificant planet.
许多人觉得,没有上帝,生活便成为毫无意义的字谜游戏,在一个微不足道的星球表面上转瞬即逝。
Tell your President to leave our countries alone and stop the charade of peace talks.
告诉你们的总统不要干涉我们的国家,停止这种虚伪的和平谈判的把戏。
He began composing himself for the guards, then realized that no such charade was necessary.
他正准备为应付卫兵编托辞,随后又认识到这种花招已经没有意义了。
It would be wrong to dismiss the charade as evidence of mainland China's suppression of political freedom.
如果认为这种象征性行为不能成为中国压制香港政治自由的证据,那就错了。
That was how Madoff was able to maintain his charade for so long.
这就是为什么Madoff能把他的骗局维持如此长一段时间。
A second draft of the law was supposedly discussed by the government and some NGOs last week, but this was widely dismissed as a charade.
据信,政府和部分NGO组织上周已就草案二稿进行了协商,但它仍像迷一样被普遍拒绝。
This little charade won't secure any more for this year but it will put a marker down for next.
这种小伎俩不会为今年赢得更多奖金,但却会给明年打下伏笔。
So kind of you to join our little charade.
你能加入我们的小游戏可真好
Now the three-way charade appears to be boiling down to a dispute over government debt guarantees.
但这个三方参与的游戏,似乎正纠结于一场有关政府债务担保的纠纷。
Yet even though the election may be a charade, it could have positive results.
然而即便选举也许会是次伪装,也能够有积极的结果。
To a large degree, the hearings in the European parliament which Barroso's new team is required to undergo will amount to a tedious charade.
巴罗佐新建团队必须经历的欧洲议会听证会在很大程度上将演变成一场枯燥乏味的字谜游戏。
On the first weekend in June, residents in one of China's richest cities were subjected to an Orwellian charade.
今年6月份的第一个周末,中国南部广东省深圳市的市民们在猜着一个奥维尔(Orwell)式的哑谜。
So does Mr. Ackermann need to keep up the German charade?
那么阿克曼先生是否还需要和德国保持这种实际上并不是很重要的关系呢?
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