单词 | impostor |
释义 | impostor[im'pɒstə]n. 冒名顶替者, 骗子, 冒牌 impostor im.pos.tor AHD: [¹m-p¼s“t…r] D.J. [!m6pKst*]K.K. [!m6p$st+]n.(名词)One who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity.冒名顶替的人:涉及以假名或假身份欺骗的人语源:1. French imposteur 法语 imposteur 2. from Late Latin impostor 源自 后期拉丁语 impostor 3. variant of impositor [one who assigns a name] impositor的变体 [起名字的人] 4. from impositus [past participle of] imp½nere [to place upon] * see impose 源自 impositus [] imp½nere的过去分词 [放上] *参见 impose参考词汇:1. impostor,quack,faker,humbug,mountebank,charlatan2. These nouns denote people who pretend to be other than what they are or to have abilities or qualifications that they do not really have. An这些名词都指那些假冒别人的人和假称具有自己并没有的能力或者资格的人。3. impostor assumes the character or identity of another for the purpose of deceiving: impostor 是出于欺骗而假冒别人的角色或者身份: He succeeded in his profession, but he always secretly considered himself an impostor.他在专业方面很成功,但他常暗自认为是个冒牌货。4. Quack refers especially to one who practices medicine without being properly qualified: Quack 尤指那些没有取得资格就行医的人: It was difficult to discern that despite all the abstruse vocabulary the professor was really a charlatan. 很难辨明那个教授虽然有很多深奥的词汇,实际上却是一个冒充内行的人 |
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