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

Public announcements of such deals are something of a charade.
有关此类交易的公告完全就是在打哑谜。
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。
I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
我拒不跟他们摆出那副可悲的装模作样的姿态。
He has no clue Shanghai was a charade.
他完全不知道上海只是一个幌子。
And I've been running a charade all these years.
而我这些年都是在装腔作势。
So you just, uh, go along with the charade.
那么你就，呃，继续装下去吧。
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。
Who dreamed up this charade?
谁编造了这个故事？
This mad charade is coming to an end.
这个疯狂的游戏就要结束了。
We know now that this is a charade.
我们现在知道，这一切只是假象。