英语词汇“sham”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sham

(shăm)

a. Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine: "Because she had been so readily unfaithful, her marriage was a sham" (Alice Munro).

b. Deceitfulness or pretense: "She saw herself as a person surrounded by, living by, sham" (Alice Munro).

c. One who claims to be what he or she is not; an impostor or fraud: "He a man! Hell! He was a hollow sham!" (Joseph Conrad).

2. A decorative cover for a pillow.

adj.

Not genuine; fake: sham diamonds; sham modesty.

v. shammed, sham·ming, shams

v.tr.

To put on the false appearance of; feign: "shamming insanity to get his tormentors to leave him alone" (John Wain).

v.intr.

To assume a false appearance or character; dissemble.

[Perhaps dialectal variant of SHAME.]

shammer n.

单词	sham
释义	sham (shăm) n. 1. a. Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine: "Because she had been so readily unfaithful, her marriage was a sham" (Alice Munro). b. Deceitfulness or pretense: "She saw herself as a person surrounded by, living by, sham" (Alice Munro). c. One who claims to be what he or she is not; an impostor or fraud: "He a man! Hell! He was a hollow sham!" (Joseph Conrad). 2. A decorative cover for a pillow. adj. Not genuine; fake: sham diamonds; sham modesty. v. shammed, sham·ming, shams v.tr. To put on the false appearance of; feign: "shamming insanity to get his tormentors to leave him alone" (John Wain). v.intr. To assume a false appearance or character; dissemble. [Perhaps dialectal variant of SHAME.] shammer n.
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