| 单词 | disguise |
| 释义 | dis·guise I. 1. < the noblemen disguised as hall porters look through you or past you — C.E.Montague > 2. obsolete 3. < a disguised tax > < hate is disguised beneath all the fine phrases — Bertrand Russell > < I see no reason for disguising my settled conviction — G.G.Coulton > 4. archaic Synonyms: < had not been able to disguise their disapproval — Archibald Marshall > < no judgment is so persuasive as when it is disguised as a statement of facts — R.P.Blackmur > < our author, disguised as Jonathan Oldstyle — Saxe Commins > dissemble stresses more the intent to deceive, especially as to one's own thoughts or feelings, usually carrying a stronger implication of successful deception than does disguise and often suggesting something censurable < I account him faithful in the pulpit who dissembles nothing that he believes for fear of giving offense — William Cowper > < smiling in the face of misfortune in order to dissemble the truth to the world — Clare Sheridan > < a crafty child given to frequent dessembling > cloak and mask are often interchangeable with disguise although both usually carry the suggestion of only partial though deceptive concealment. cloak carries strongly the idea of covering something up usually with the intent of misleading or in an attempt to make something unacceptable seem acceptable < who cloaks the wisdom of her “uplift” talks in warm humanity — Muriel Segal > < intolerance and public irresponsibility cannot be cloaked in the shining armor of rectitude and righteousness — A.E.Stevenson †1965 > mask adds to cloak the idea of a certain obviousness in the covering and suggests even more strongly the unacceptableness of the thing masked, sometimes suggesting, correlatively, not only a neutral or even acceptable quality in the disguise as opposed to the thing masked but often a quality that positively ornaments or embellishes < his pessimism … became an obvious pose, an attempt to mask his porky complacence — Granville Hicks > < the usual disorderly bustle which masks the deadly efficiency of the French people — Osbert Sitwell > < the windows were masked by long cretonne drapes > II. 1. < a king in disguise > often < grotesque disguises at carnival balls > 2. a. < blessings in disguise > b. < throw off all disguise > c. < without fear of evil or disguise — P.B.Shelley > 3. < spoke with disguise > 4. obsolete 5. obsolete |
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