| 单词 | counterfeit |
| 释义 | coun·ter·feit I. transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. < counterfeit sorrow and mask inward glee > 3. a. < fiction that seeks to counterfeit reality — Bernard De Voto > b. < a gang counterfeiting $50 bills > 4. a. archaic b. obsolete intransitive verb 1. 2. < held on charges of counterfeiting > Synonyms: see assume II. 1. a. < a counterfeit gospel rejected as apocryphal > b. < a counterfeit diamond made of paste > especially < a counterfeit stamp > < a counterfeit bill > 2. a. < a counterfeit joy at her friend's engagement > b. < an impostor, a counterfeit prince > 3. archaic < look here upon this picture and on this, the counterfeit presentment of two brothers — Shakespeare > Synonyms: < a counterfeit coin > < a counterfeit passport > < the austere word of genuine religion is: save your soul! The degenerate counsel of a counterfeit religion is: salve your soul! — W.L.Sullivan > spurious applies to what is not genuine, authentic, or true without necessarily implying fraudulent purpose or deceiving imitation < the French look on us English monk-made knights as spurious and adulterine, unworthy of the name of knight — Charles Kingsley > < it is certain that the letter, attributed to him, directing that no Christian should be punished for being a Christian, is spurious — Matthew Arnold > bogus is likely to imply fraud, imposture, or deception, sometimes self-deception < in red cambric and bogus ermine, as some kind of king — Mark Twain > < bogus naturalization of immigrants and repeating at elections were now carried to hitherto unknown lengths — A.F.Harlow > < nostalgia can be the trickiest of maladies. It invests the past with bogus glamour — W.C.Richards > fake implies a false fabrication or fraudulent manipulation < a fake ruby > < a fake cure-all > < another source of quick money was selling life memberships in fake yacht clubs — Alva Johnston > < any Americans who cling to illusions about communism and its fake Utopia — A.E.Stevenson b.1900 > sham may suggest thinness and obviousness of the disguise, naiveté of the deception, or lack of intent to imitate exactly < a garden adorned with sham ruins and statues — L.P.Smith > < he [Euripides] looked at war and he saw through all the sham glory to the awful evil beneath — Edith Hamilton > < not one officer among them whose experience of war extended beyond a drill on muster day and the sham fight that closed the performance — Francis Parkman > pseudo (often appearing as a combining form) may apply to either pretentious, spurious imitation or to imitation to deceive < the cottage seemed very small and horribly ‘arty-crafty<18>. <17>Everthing seemed so pseudo,’ said Lucy — Frances Towers > < those democrats who wholeheartedly are democrats and not pseudo-democrats — Fortnightly > < these pseudo-evangelists pretended to inspiration — Thomas Jefferson > pinchbeck may apply to a cheap imitation, often to a poor copy of something costly or grand < pinchbeck imitations of the glory of ancient Rome — Manchester Guardian Weekly > < greater numbers could afford the pinchbeck splendor of organizations like the Colonial Order of the Crown — J.D.Hart > phony, more forceful than most in this group, stigmatizes anything spurious < the phony aura of romance which travel bureaus are wont to attach to the West Indies — Gladwin Hill > < the Germans were deceiving us at that very moment with a phony show of strength — F.E.Fox > III. 1. a. < the $10 bill turned out to be a counterfeit > b. < that temporary counterfeit of fame which is publicity — Irwin Edman > 2. archaic < fair Portia's counterfeit — Shakespeare > 3. archaic Synonyms: see imposture |
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