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单词 keep up appearances
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keep up appearances

Maintain an impression of wealth or well-being.It is crumbling, but the screen keeps up appearances....
  • It's the diplomatic version of distressed gentlefolk keeping up appearances, making ourselves ridiculous and obnoxious to our real equals, the other Europeans.
  • With an overriding mood of boredom, the boys and girls are almost totally incapable of talking to one another, and all their parents worry about is keeping up appearances.
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