| 释义 |
cha·rade
\shəˈrād, US sometimes & Brit usually -äd or -ȧd\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French, from Provençal charrado chat, from charra to chatter, of imitative origin
1.
a. : a word represented in riddling verse or by picture, tableau, or dramatic action (as intrusion represented by depiction of inn, true, and shun)
b. charades, plural but singular or plural in construction : a game in which a group is divided into two sides each alternately devising charades to be guessed by the other
2. : something resembling or felt to resemble a charade: as
a. : an almost transparent pretense
b. : a symbolic action
< sleepwalkers acting out some fantastic Freudian charade of their own illusions — J.R.Ullman > |