| 单词 | to put on the mask |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put on (also throw off, drop, etc.) the mask a. A pretence, a front, an outward show intended to deceive; frequently in to put on (also throw off, drop, etc.) the mask. under the mask of: with the appearance or apparent motive of (but not actually). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > mask, cloak, disguise visor1390 scugc1485 cloak1526 visor1532 vizarda1555 mask1577 superficiesa1592 muffler1605 umbrella1623 misguise1646 travesty1732 iron mask1760 domino1836 vizarding1861 1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. Fivv That their nephue Francis serued but as a maske and cloke to their fellonie. 1678 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy v. i. 74 Keep still that mask of Love we first put on..for I have no joy beyond cheating that filthy Uncle of thine. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 148 No man had ever a greater power over himself, or was less the man that he seem'd to be, which shortly after appear'd to every body, when he cared less to keep on the Masque. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xlvii. 275 If I write not in time, but that thou hast actually pulled off the mask; let [etc.]. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xi. 165 A base ungenerous wretch, who, under the mask of friendship, has undone me. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales xvi. 286 She veil'd her troubles in a mask of ease. 1832 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 604 He himself, by way of masque,..attended a public spectacle. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 400 He had covered his failings with the mask of devotion. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) IV. xvii. 37 The way in which..wrong contrived to assume the mask of right. 1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert ix. 203 It was only..when I learned that in the privacy of her home she would weep bitterly..that I realized that she did but wear the mask. 1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door xii. 284 Under the mask of a riotous life there would be death at the heart. 1956 A. Stevenson in Chicago Tribune 18 Oct. 2/6 This is a man of many masks. Who can say they have seen his real face?’ 1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. ii. iv. 57 Another holy hypocrite hides his private prurience behind a mask of public piety. < as lemmas |
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