dissemble

英 [dɪˈsembl]

美 [dɪˈsembl]

v.  掩盖，掩饰(真实感情或意图)

现在分词：dissembling　过去分词：dissembled　复数：dissembles　第三人称单数：dissembles　过去式：dissembled　

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BNC.32958 / COCA.26710

牛津词典

verb

• 掩盖，掩饰（真实感情或意图）
  to hide your real feelings or intentions, often by pretending to have different ones
  1. She was a very honest person who was incapable of dissembling.
     她是一个非常诚实的人，不会伪装。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 掩饰(真实意图或情感)
  When peopledissemble, they hide their real intentions or emotions.
  1. Henry was not slow to dissemble when it served his purposes.
     在需要时，亨利会毫不迟疑地伪装自己。

英英释义

verb

• make believe with the intent to deceive
  1. He feigned that he was ill
  2. He shammed a headache
  Synonym:feignshampretendaffect
• behave unnaturally or affectedly
  1. She's just acting
  Synonym:pretendact
• hide under a false appearance
  1. He masked his disappointment
  Synonym:cloakmask

双语例句

• I tried to dissemble an interest I didn't feel.
  我设法假装感到兴趣。
• Dissemble one's intentions, meaning, motives, etc.
  掩盖自己的意图、意思、动机等。
• Families that quarrel in the privacy of the home do well to dissemble when they go out to dinner.
  在家中争吵的家庭出外晚餐时都掩饰得很好。
• The gentleman he says speaks his mind without fear or favor somewhat like the New York Times because to dissemble would be beneath him.
  避免任何人情债，他说，绅士说话坦荡，不偏不倚，有点像《纽约时报》，因为掩饰将会使其降尊。
• To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.
  掩饰真实的情感，控制脸上的表情，跟旁人亦步亦趋，所有这些早成了本能的反应。
• Politicians frequently have to dissemble so as not to admit that mistakes have been made.
  政客们不得不频繁作掩盖，免得承认已犯下错误。
• It was not in her nature to dissemble.
  她生性不喜掩饰。
• She tried to dissemble her anger with a smile on her face.
  她试着用在她的脸上一个微笑掩饰她的忿怒。
• This contract would be automatically terminated in the condition the damages caused of repair, maintenance, dissemble etc. by the third party permitted by Party A.
  甲方允许非乙方技术人员维修、护、卸设备及附件或造成设备损坏，本合同自行作废。
• They only call it rubbish to dissemble their real motives.
  他们把它说得分文不值就是为了掩盖自己的真正动机。