单词 | faux |
释义 | fauxWord family adjectivefauxnounfaux pas faux /fəʊ $ foʊ/ adjectiveadj [only before noun] especially American EnglishAmE → foe ARTIFICIALartificial, but made to look real 人造的,仿造的 SYN false faux pearls 人造珍珠 Examples from the Corpus faux• Even your basic beach motel is putting up faux columns.• What is evolving is a derivative style, or faux formal.• They tend to have a faux friendliness to them.• And when the lights dimmed, faux snow began to float down from the ceiling and on to the sweet-smelling soil.• I create fine art from found objects, and also work extensively in faux stone. (1900-2000) French Latin falsus; → FALSE |
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