| 单词 | dissimulate |
| 释义 | dissimulate (once / 2814 pages) v Your wife gave you socks for Christmas and you smiled happily and kissed her? You, my friend, know how to dissimulate — that is, cover up your true feelings. Unless you happen to really, really like socks. Sometimes confused with dissimilar, meaning "not alike", or "different," or a form of simulate, meaning "to pretend to do or feel something." Being able to dissimulate is a useful trick, not just if your wife gives you socks. After all, the whole political process depends on it. As Louis XI once said, "He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign." Wikipedia would probably agree with that. WORD FAMILYdissimulate: dissimulated, dissimulates, dissimulating, dissimulation, dissimulative+/dissimulation: dissimulations USAGE EXAMPLESDissimulating his preoccupation, he invited his mistress to read a flattering notice on her performance from the pen of Monsieur de Boigne. d'Auvergne, Edmund B., Lola Montez—An Adventuress of the '...(2012) Since her fifteenth year this desire had been fixed, calculating design, dissimulated under apparent recklessness. Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente, The Enemies of Women—(Los enemigos...(2012) The old theology did not dissimulate this kinship of origin; it rather exaggerated it. Sabatier, Auguste, Outlines of a Philosophy of Religio...(2012) v hide (feelings) from other people Hyper disguise, mask make unrecognizable |
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