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

Not going through the charade of an assessment.
不用再浪费时间做评估了。
She and her three brothers played charades.
她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。
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。
Everyone knew who was going to get the job from the start& the interviews were just a charade.
每个人都一开始就知道谁会得到那份工作&面试只是做个样子罢了。
So this was all a charade?
所以这全都是在演戏吗？
The charade was over: they could hear his feet striking sharply on the asphalt going away.
他玩的把戏结束了，人们可以听到他的脚步响亮地敲击着沥青路渐渐远去。
He has no clue Shanghai was a charade.
他完全不知道上海只是一个幌子。
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。
You must not refine too much upon this charade.
你切不可过分推敲这个字谜。
Who dreamed up this charade?
谁编造了这个故事？