| 释义 |
ˈmake-beˌlief
= next.
Substituted by some writers for make-believe; the formation of the latter, being misunderstood, was imagined to be incorrect.
1833–40J. H. Newman Ch. of Fathers (1842) 372 Evil Spirits..are but actors in a play, changing their appearance and frightening children by their tumult and their make-belief. 1854Lett. of American (ed. Landor) 17 Creeds and lichens grow in the extremities of his [the Tzar's] frozen regions; farther to the southwest, beliefs are make-beliefs. 1858Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. ii. ii. (1873) 85 The early institutions of a nation may fail of fully carrying out their ends, but there is no make-belief as to what those ends are. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life vii. i. (1876) 229 A sort of make-belief lady. 1909Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 4/1 The contempt with which all things are remembered, to which cling suggestions of the theatrical and the make-belief. 1960J. Rae Custard Boys ii. xix. 212 He had been my guide through the days of make-belief and blinkered memory. 1971Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 9/1 That great reservoir of make-belief which lies hidden in so many children. |