make believe 详细解释

make believe

['meikbi.li:v]

[ make believe ]

n. 假装, 假扮, 幻想
adj. 幻想的, 假装的

假装

The boys made believe that they were explorers.

孩子们装成探险家。

词义辨析

同义参见:

pretend  

英英释义

名词 make believe:

imaginative intellectual play

同义词:pretense, pretence, make-believe

the enactment of a pretense

同义词:make-believe, pretend

动词 make believe:

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

同义词:make, pretend

形容词 make believe:

imagined as in a play

同义词:make-believe, pretend

补充

make believemake believe1.假装Sometimes when children play, they make believe they are grow-ups.孩子们有时在游戏时装作大人。He made believe to wash clothes.他假装洗衣服。

例句

1. He made believe that he did not really want to speak to Evans.他假装自己其实并不想和埃文斯说话。 2. When we were children we used to make believe (that) we were soldiers fighting in a war.小时候我们常常玩士兵打仗的游戏。 3. "He isn't really angry, he's just making believe (that he is)."他并没有真的生气,他只是假装而已。 4. They want to make believe that everything is all right.他们想装出一切都安然无恙的样子。