belying

英 [bɪˈlaɪɪŋ]

美 [bɪˈlaɪɪŋ]

v.  掩饰; 遮掩; 使…给人以假象; 显示(某事)不正确; 证明(某事)错误
belie的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 掩饰；遮掩
  If one thingbeliesanother, it hides the true situation and so creates a false idea or image of someone or something.
  1. Her looks belie her 50 years.
     她看上去不像50岁。
• VERB 证明…是虚假的；显示…不真实
  If one thingbeliesanother, it proves that the other thing is not true or genuine.
  1. The facts of the situation belie his testimony.
     实际情况证明他作了伪证。

双语例句

• Worker activists have welcomed the law for beginning to address a Dickensian imbalance in employer-employee relations belying the official push to build a more "harmonious" society.
  工人维权人士对新法律的施行表示欢迎，因为它意味着社会开始应对狄更斯时代般的劳资关系失衡，这种失衡与官方推动建设更“和谐”社会不符。
• Christians also make great claims, and are often guilty of belying them with their actions.
  基督徒许多时候也有高言大志，但常常与他们的行为不符。
• The window had opened easily at his touch, belying the complex lock that had once existed there.
  最好有个转折的意思在里面，尽管锁很复杂，他也能一触即开。
• But perhaps more importantly, the growth of the industry has changed attitudes to business in Africa belying the received wisdom that African markets were too risky and poor.
  但更重要的影响可能是，电信业的增长已改变了人们对非洲商业的看法，推翻了非洲市场过于危险和贫穷的传统观念。
• Central Asia, belying its label, is on the edge of this space politically as well as physically.
  而中亚地区则实际名不副实，他并非在亚洲中心，而是在东亚的边缘，地理上政治上均是如此。