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单词 belie
释义
beliebe‧lie /bɪˈlaɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle belied, present participle belying, third person singular belies) [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
belie
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theybelie
he, she, itbelies
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theybelied
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave belied
he, she, ithas belied
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad belied
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill belie
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have belied
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Two large tears belied Rosalie's brave words.
  • With a quickness that belied her age, she ran across the road.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Again, as with the McCone Commission, surfaces belied depths.
  • He wore shorts and a T-shirt that revealed well-muscled legs and arms and a strong neck that belied the grizzled hair.
  • The bright October day belied the cold wind.
  • The Chamber Symphony No. 2, begun in 1906 and completed in 1939, belies its fearsome reputation.
  • The score belies the ferocious chessboard duel that we have witnessed over the past month and a half.
  • The subjects, even those in synthetically casual poses, have a rigid alertness that belies their awareness of the camera.
  • Their pasty faces - the result of long periods underground - belie their extraordinary strength and tenacity.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Tuscan columns in the Great Hall and a magnificent new entrance belied the fact that this was a small house.· But this piece of ideological mystification is belied by the facts.
1to give someone a false idea about something:  Her pleasant manner belied her true character.2to show that something cannot be true or real:  His cheerful smile belied his words.
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