charade

英 [ʃəˈrɑːd]

美 [ʃəˈreɪd]

n. 明显的伪装; 做戏; 装模作样; 打哑谜猜字游戏

Collins.1 / BNC.18799 / COCA.18388

牛津词典

noun

明显的伪装；做戏；装模作样
a situation in which people pretend that sth is true when it clearly is not
1. Their whole marriage had been a charade─they had never loved each other.
  他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏——他们从未相爱过。
打哑谜猜字游戏
a game in which one player acts out the syllables of a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is
1. Let's play charades.
  咱们来玩打哑谜猜字游戏吧。

N-COUNT 明显的做作;一眼看穿的伪装
If you describe someone's actions as acharade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
1. I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...
  我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。
2. The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.
  联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。
N-UNCOUNT 看手势猜字谜游戏
Charadesis a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.
1. She and her three brothers played charades.
  她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。

noun

a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
Synonym:parodylampoonspoofsendupmockerytakeoffburlesquetravestypasquinadeput-on

This charade of me being under arrest if you want to.
在逮捕我的情况下玩这种猜谜游戏。
Youngsters observe that the marital relationship of their parents is nothing but an empty charade.
年轻人发现他们父母之间的婚姻关系不过是一场没有实质内容的猜谜游戏。
So this was all a charade?
所以这全都是在演戏吗？
We can stop this charade and run away together.
我们能不管他们在一起快活。
The charade was over: they could hear his feet striking sharply on the asphalt going away.
他玩的把戏结束了，人们可以听到他的脚步响亮地敲击着沥青路渐渐远去。
Just how long do you think we can keep that charade up?
你认为那样的游戏能持续多久？
Not going through the charade of an assessment.
不用再浪费时间做评估了。
They would have never gone through this whole charade in the first place.
他们不会首先问询这件事的。
And I've been running a charade all these years.
而我这些年都是在装腔作势。
This mad charade is coming to an end.
这个疯狂的游戏就要结束了。