| 单词 | belie |
| 释义 | belie[bi'lai]vt. 掩饰, 与...不符, 使失望 belie be.lie AHD: [b¹-lº“] D.J. [b!6la!]K.K. [b!6la!]v.tr.（及物动词） be.lied,be.ly.ing,be.lies 1. To picture falsely; misrepresent:错误地描述；误述：“He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility”(&b{James Joyce})“为了给人有贵族气派的印象，他说话粗暴”(詹姆斯·乔伊丝)2. To show to be false:显示为虚假：Their laughter belied their outward grief.他们的笑声显示出他们表面上虚假的悲伤3. To be counter to; contradict:与…相对立；与…相矛盾：At first glance, life at the boarding school seemed to belie all the bad things I had heard about it.初看之下，寄宿学校的生活似乎不同于我所听说的有关它的糟糕情形语源:1. Middle English bilien 中古英语 bilien 2. from Old English bel¶ogan [to deceive with lies] * see leugh- 源自 古英语 bel¶ogan [用谎言欺骗] *参见 leugh- 继承用法:beli“er n.（名词） |
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