sham
/ʃæm/
📖 中文释义
- n. 假, 赝品, 骗子, 哄骗
- a. 假的, 伪造的
- vt. 假装, 冒充
- vi. 装假
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
💬 双语例句
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.
虽然虚伪、苦痛还有破碎的梦伴随着我,但这仍然是一个美丽的世界。
Following the sham elections in early December, massive protests erupted in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. And those marching were not the usual impoverished rabble-rousers, but Russia’s new middle classes.
Human-rights activists who demonstrate for Palestinian statehood should be no less vocal on behalf of Kurdish statehood. And human-rights claims – unless they are applied selectively as part of a hypocritical sham – should always trump realpolitik.
🔵 同义词
🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- n a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- v make a pretence of
- v make believe with the intent to deceive
- s adopted in order to deceive