Definition of masquerade in English:

masquerade

noun ˌmaskəˈreɪdˌmɑːskəˈreɪdˌmæskəˈreɪd

1A false show or pretence.
伪装，假装；欺骗
I doubt he could have kept up the masquerade for long
Example sentencesExamples
- Some drawings are barely colored at all, others more fully, but one invariably feels that the artist is engaged in a masquerade of his own, pretending to be a child grown impatient with rules.
- This belief makes each of the parties put up the masquerade up to the very end in the hope that once the prize is won, they would be able to jettison the other parties.
- It is unlikely we will soon return to a masquerade of can-can supported grandeur and today's parade music must bow to that reality-not the other way around.
- On the one hand, looking within from without causes her to adopt and discard various socially approved feminine masquerades whilst her ‘real’ self remains in hiding.
- There are some journalists and war reporters who, despite years of experience, are very opinionated and whose masquerade of objectivity is easy to see through.
- Later in the novel, Clara performs a masquerade in reverse, pretending to be a governess while she is still working as a servant.
- As masquerades start to unravel and tanks roll into town Charlotte is forced to decide whose safety matters most.
- Now, though, unable to be true to himself, his painting too became a masquerade.
- Someone call the Washington Times and alert them to this sly wolfish masquerade!
- The mainly young protesters, many in their teens, defied the security forces' assaults and chanted slogans against the upcoming presidential elections, calling it a masquerade.
- Everday life is almost solely composed of a series of ritualized masquerades.
- But still, ever since I began this masquerade, I had tried to change everything.
- Dr Watson was seldom in danger of seeing through any of these masquerades.
- Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
- If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end.
- I had to think of a way to end this masquerade, but a crowd had formed to watch and I didn't want to break up something that could be considered cool.
Synonyms
pretence, deception, pose, act, front, facade, disguise, dissimulation, cover-up, bluff, subterfuge, play-acting, make-believe
informal put-on
1. 1.1mass noun The wearing of disguise.
  化装
  dressing up, role playing, and masquerade
  乔装打扮，角色扮演和化装。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Approximately fifty masquerade types appeared in the 1993 festival.
  Over her long and varied career, she has used masquerade, performance and role-playing to extend the frontiers of her own identity.
  This distance functions like a mask or masquerade, revealing more than it hides.
  Some were dressed in costumes made from animal heads or fur - the origin of the contemporary Halloween masquerade.
  Here is combined a long deep legacy of dress-up for masquerade, for carnival, for possession by the Gods combined with personal creativity and ingenuity.
  These drawings and models were juxtaposed with photographs of adult masquerade performances and examples of the masks themselves.
  Rather, it presented and discussed children's masquerade in Africa, a subject little explored but much witnessed by scholars studying African cultures.
  Meanwhile, because we are accustomed to the roles each actor usually performs, we become acutely aware that we are witnessing a performance, or masquerade.
  He upheld a New York State statute prohibiting the wearing of masks or facial disguises in public, other than for masquerade or similar entertainment purposes.
  The film explores this realm through a complex narrative use of masks and masquerade.
  Pope Joan's description of the impromptu birth of her child, while the female pope was still in mannish masquerade, is a guaranteed conversation stopper.
  Carnival Messiah has 100 performers from the worlds of theatre, opera, dance and masquerade, some international, others local.
  Traditional African masquerade, dating back to the era before emancipation, used rags, paint, and spears to portray an image of a miserable, uncivilised past.
  This reverse process can make these viewers unknowingly complicit with their own duping through artfully crafted masquerade.
  Hasn't anyone besides me noticed the flavor of masquerade and carnivalesque fantasy in Joan's behavior?
  Or, how can one study a masquerade without discussing the physical mask, the apparent centerpiece of any masquerade?
2. 1.2North American A masked ball.
  假面舞会
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is a site devoted to this musical masquerade.
  I can't believe that you managed to get him to escort you to this masquerade.
  The masquerade starts after dinner from 9: 10 pm and will last into the early hours.
  The cost is 1,000 yuan for dinner and masquerade, 500 yuan for masquerade only.
  The best part was to be the New Year's eve masquerade.
  Synonyms
  masked ball, masque, fancy-dress party

verb ˌmaskəˈreɪdˌmɑːskəˈreɪdˌmæskəˈreɪd

[no object]

1Pretend to be someone one is not.
假装，假扮
a journalist masquerading as a man in distress
一个假扮成穷困潦倒者的记者。
Example sentencesExamples
- He masquerades as a bounty hunter and joins a small group of actors traveling to the King's palace to entertain the King, meeting the leader of the group, a charismatic young man with a taste for danger and beautiful women.
- There are many people that go around masquerading as boxing fans.
- A man working in the Post Office turns out to be a special agent with the skill to uncover aliens masquerading as humans.
- The ambitious teenager masquerades as pilot, doctor and lawyer while mainlining in embezzlement.
- The rumours that this weblog is secretly written by a teenage prostitute masquerading as a 37 year old comedian are greatly exaggerated.
- Someone could come across border masquerading as a border patrol agent.
- Is this or isn't this a secret release from James masquerading under a different name?
- In the first, they chatted simultaneously with a woman and with a man masquerading as a woman, in an effort to spot the real woman.
- The protagonists aren't rich characters masquerading as poor.
- It's just a criminal gang masquerading as Loyalists.
- After the usual anti-war stuff, he complains that ‘He is a Tory masquerading as a Labour politician’.
- I was certainly startled by the two people I saw masquerading as my parents.
- A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania.
- And now many suspicious minds have concluded there is more than one person masquerading as the King.
- Lighthearted and serious at the same time, the story tells of a ruler who masquerades as a lowly sty-warden to observe what the community's various members do for the good of the whole.
- When he masquerades as someone else, he is just a fake.
Synonyms
pretend to be, pose as, pass oneself off as, impersonate, disguise oneself as, simulate, profess to be
rare personate
1. 1.1 Be disguised or passed off as something else.
  冒充
  idle gossip that masquerades as news
  地方报中冒充成新闻的闲言碎语。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She ended up working for a business that masquerades as a charity.
  I popped into the new coffee shop I spoke of a few days back and was served with a highly mediocre cup of sludgy end-of-day coffee masquerading as an Americano.
  This is a fully fledged computer masquerading as a gaming gadget, and - as you can tell from the price - it is aimed not at children, but overgrown kids.
  All such hopes have turned to ashes as we now contemplate this sad, trouble-plagued, expensive tram system masquerading as a public service.
  Is it a personality flaw masquerading as a political philosophy?
  One of e-mail's drawbacks is that it masquerades as communication when it is best used for informing, broadcasting, or scheduling.
  At one point as I was wading through gravy, gristle and fat that was masquerading as lamb cutlets, I thought I found a prime piece of meat.
  And because it masquerades as news, we naturally let our guard down, invoking a built in trust of that which is media establishment.
  A modern reproduction that masquerades as brass it may be, but still it is beautiful.
  The outbreak of a mass emailing worm, which masquerades as a matchmaking program, has been brought under control.
  Don't tell me this is masquerading under the guise of some kind of tribute.
  Badly acted, written and directed, it is nothing more than a dirty movie masquerading as a character study.
  It has become a business masquerading as a sport.
  It is just that, at this level, if you are serious about winning, you need to be ruthless when presented with anything vaguely masquerading as a chance.
  The lesson is dishonest in that it masquerades as science while including misrepresentations and factual errors.
  I submit that it is only a game masquerading as an athletic event.
  In reality, this is a gorgeous dessert masquerading as health food.
  But the slogan of freedom masquerading as moral clarity is quite another.
  We need to speak out against intolerance that masquerades as tolerance.
  There I was, patiently reading through Chapter Thirty, when I reached something that was masquerading as the end.

Derivatives

masquerader

noun ˌmaskəˈreɪdəˌmɑːskəˈreɪdəˌmæskəˈreɪdər

The exhibition also included a number of drawings and small models of masqueraders made by children, which generated a significant amount of interest from visitors.
Example sentencesExamples
- While these masqueraders wore the traditional sailor uniforms, their headpieces portrayed symbols representative of the festive Christmas season.
- My presence also made other differences, as the masqueraders occasionally stopped in their performance to pose for my camera.
- Early accounts report that masqueraders participated in generating this reputation by joining battles and terrorizing encroaching communities by night.
- The original date of the launch would have been a pre-season first, forcing masqueraders to choose between the launch of two large bands.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French mascarade, from Italian mascherata, from maschera 'mask'.

mascara from late 19th century:
Acting and clowning are indirectly linked in mascara, from Italian maschera, which goes back to an Arabic word meaning ‘buffoon’. Most of the earliest English uses refer to theatrical make-up, though the first known, from 1886, suggests a more discreet use by gentlemen: ‘For darkening the eyebrows and moustaches without greasing them and making them prominent’. Through Italian maschera mascara is also linked to mask (mid 16th century) and masquerade (late 16th century).

Rhymes

abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade

Definition of masquerade in US English:

masquerade

nounˌmaskəˈrādˌmæskəˈreɪd

1A false show or pretense.
伪装，假装；欺骗
his masquerade ended when he was arrested
Example sentencesExamples
- The mainly young protesters, many in their teens, defied the security forces' assaults and chanted slogans against the upcoming presidential elections, calling it a masquerade.
- Dr Watson was seldom in danger of seeing through any of these masquerades.
- I had to think of a way to end this masquerade, but a crowd had formed to watch and I didn't want to break up something that could be considered cool.
- Everday life is almost solely composed of a series of ritualized masquerades.
- If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end.
- It is unlikely we will soon return to a masquerade of can-can supported grandeur and today's parade music must bow to that reality-not the other way around.
- Now, though, unable to be true to himself, his painting too became a masquerade.
- As masquerades start to unravel and tanks roll into town Charlotte is forced to decide whose safety matters most.
- Later in the novel, Clara performs a masquerade in reverse, pretending to be a governess while she is still working as a servant.
- Some drawings are barely colored at all, others more fully, but one invariably feels that the artist is engaged in a masquerade of his own, pretending to be a child grown impatient with rules.
- But still, ever since I began this masquerade, I had tried to change everything.
- This belief makes each of the parties put up the masquerade up to the very end in the hope that once the prize is won, they would be able to jettison the other parties.
- There are some journalists and war reporters who, despite years of experience, are very opinionated and whose masquerade of objectivity is easy to see through.
- Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
- Someone call the Washington Times and alert them to this sly wolfish masquerade!
- On the one hand, looking within from without causes her to adopt and discard various socially approved feminine masquerades whilst her ‘real’ self remains in hiding.
Synonyms
pretence, deception, pose, act, front, facade, disguise, dissimulation, cover-up, bluff, subterfuge, play-acting, make-believe
1. 1.1 The wearing of disguise.
  化装
  dressing up, role playing, and masquerade
  乔装打扮，角色扮演和化装。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The film explores this realm through a complex narrative use of masks and masquerade.
  Here is combined a long deep legacy of dress-up for masquerade, for carnival, for possession by the Gods combined with personal creativity and ingenuity.
  Pope Joan's description of the impromptu birth of her child, while the female pope was still in mannish masquerade, is a guaranteed conversation stopper.
  This reverse process can make these viewers unknowingly complicit with their own duping through artfully crafted masquerade.
  Hasn't anyone besides me noticed the flavor of masquerade and carnivalesque fantasy in Joan's behavior?
  Over her long and varied career, she has used masquerade, performance and role-playing to extend the frontiers of her own identity.
  Meanwhile, because we are accustomed to the roles each actor usually performs, we become acutely aware that we are witnessing a performance, or masquerade.
  Carnival Messiah has 100 performers from the worlds of theatre, opera, dance and masquerade, some international, others local.
  Rather, it presented and discussed children's masquerade in Africa, a subject little explored but much witnessed by scholars studying African cultures.
  He upheld a New York State statute prohibiting the wearing of masks or facial disguises in public, other than for masquerade or similar entertainment purposes.
  This distance functions like a mask or masquerade, revealing more than it hides.
  Some were dressed in costumes made from animal heads or fur - the origin of the contemporary Halloween masquerade.
  Approximately fifty masquerade types appeared in the 1993 festival.
  Or, how can one study a masquerade without discussing the physical mask, the apparent centerpiece of any masquerade?
  These drawings and models were juxtaposed with photographs of adult masquerade performances and examples of the masks themselves.
  Traditional African masquerade, dating back to the era before emancipation, used rags, paint, and spears to portray an image of a miserable, uncivilised past.
2. 1.2North American A masked ball.
  假面舞会
  Example sentencesExamples
  The masquerade starts after dinner from 9: 10 pm and will last into the early hours.
  The best part was to be the New Year's eve masquerade.
  I can't believe that you managed to get him to escort you to this masquerade.
  The cost is 1,000 yuan for dinner and masquerade, 500 yuan for masquerade only.
  It is a site devoted to this musical masquerade.
  Synonyms
  masked ball, masque, fancy-dress party

verbˌmaskəˈrādˌmæskəˈreɪd

[no object]

1Pretend to be someone one is not.
假装，假扮
a journalist masquerading as a man in distress
一个假扮成穷困潦倒者的记者。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's just a criminal gang masquerading as Loyalists.
- And now many suspicious minds have concluded there is more than one person masquerading as the King.
- The ambitious teenager masquerades as pilot, doctor and lawyer while mainlining in embezzlement.
- Is this or isn't this a secret release from James masquerading under a different name?
- A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania.
- The rumours that this weblog is secretly written by a teenage prostitute masquerading as a 37 year old comedian are greatly exaggerated.
- A man working in the Post Office turns out to be a special agent with the skill to uncover aliens masquerading as humans.
- After the usual anti-war stuff, he complains that ‘He is a Tory masquerading as a Labour politician’.
- I was certainly startled by the two people I saw masquerading as my parents.
- Someone could come across border masquerading as a border patrol agent.
- The protagonists aren't rich characters masquerading as poor.
- There are many people that go around masquerading as boxing fans.
- In the first, they chatted simultaneously with a woman and with a man masquerading as a woman, in an effort to spot the real woman.
- When he masquerades as someone else, he is just a fake.
- He masquerades as a bounty hunter and joins a small group of actors traveling to the King's palace to entertain the King, meeting the leader of the group, a charismatic young man with a taste for danger and beautiful women.
- Lighthearted and serious at the same time, the story tells of a ruler who masquerades as a lowly sty-warden to observe what the community's various members do for the good of the whole.
Synonyms
pretend to be, pose as, pass oneself off as, impersonate, disguise oneself as, simulate, profess to be
1. 1.1 Be disguised or passed off as something else.
  冒充
  the idle gossip that masquerades as news in some local papers
  地方报中冒充成新闻的闲言碎语。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The outbreak of a mass emailing worm, which masquerades as a matchmaking program, has been brought under control.
  Badly acted, written and directed, it is nothing more than a dirty movie masquerading as a character study.
  Don't tell me this is masquerading under the guise of some kind of tribute.
  At one point as I was wading through gravy, gristle and fat that was masquerading as lamb cutlets, I thought I found a prime piece of meat.
  But the slogan of freedom masquerading as moral clarity is quite another.
  We need to speak out against intolerance that masquerades as tolerance.
  She ended up working for a business that masquerades as a charity.
  There I was, patiently reading through Chapter Thirty, when I reached something that was masquerading as the end.
  All such hopes have turned to ashes as we now contemplate this sad, trouble-plagued, expensive tram system masquerading as a public service.
  It is just that, at this level, if you are serious about winning, you need to be ruthless when presented with anything vaguely masquerading as a chance.
  A modern reproduction that masquerades as brass it may be, but still it is beautiful.
  One of e-mail's drawbacks is that it masquerades as communication when it is best used for informing, broadcasting, or scheduling.
  The lesson is dishonest in that it masquerades as science while including misrepresentations and factual errors.
  This is a fully fledged computer masquerading as a gaming gadget, and - as you can tell from the price - it is aimed not at children, but overgrown kids.
  In reality, this is a gorgeous dessert masquerading as health food.
  Is it a personality flaw masquerading as a political philosophy?
  I popped into the new coffee shop I spoke of a few days back and was served with a highly mediocre cup of sludgy end-of-day coffee masquerading as an Americano.
  I submit that it is only a game masquerading as an athletic event.
  And because it masquerades as news, we naturally let our guard down, invoking a built in trust of that which is media establishment.
  It has become a business masquerading as a sport.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French mascarade, from Italian mascherata, from maschera ‘mask’.

单词	masquerade
释义	Definition of masquerade in English: masquerade noun ˌmaskəˈreɪdˌmɑːskəˈreɪdˌmæskəˈreɪd 1A false show or pretence. 伪装，假装；欺骗 I doubt he could have kept up the masquerade for long Example sentencesExamples Some drawings are barely colored at all, others more fully, but one invariably feels that the artist is engaged in a masquerade of his own, pretending to be a child grown impatient with rules. This belief makes each of the parties put up the masquerade up to the very end in the hope that once the prize is won, they would be able to jettison the other parties. It is unlikely we will soon return to a masquerade of can-can supported grandeur and today's parade music must bow to that reality-not the other way around. On the one hand, looking within from without causes her to adopt and discard various socially approved feminine masquerades whilst her ‘real’ self remains in hiding. There are some journalists and war reporters who, despite years of experience, are very opinionated and whose masquerade of objectivity is easy to see through. Later in the novel, Clara performs a masquerade in reverse, pretending to be a governess while she is still working as a servant. As masquerades start to unravel and tanks roll into town Charlotte is forced to decide whose safety matters most. Now, though, unable to be true to himself, his painting too became a masquerade. Someone call the Washington Times and alert them to this sly wolfish masquerade! The mainly young protesters, many in their teens, defied the security forces' assaults and chanted slogans against the upcoming presidential elections, calling it a masquerade. Everday life is almost solely composed of a series of ritualized masquerades. But still, ever since I began this masquerade, I had tried to change everything. Dr Watson was seldom in danger of seeing through any of these masquerades. Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film. If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end. I had to think of a way to end this masquerade, but a crowd had formed to watch and I didn't want to break up something that could be considered cool. Synonyms pretence, deception, pose, act, front, facade, disguise, dissimulation, cover-up, bluff, subterfuge, play-acting, make-believe informal put-on 1.1mass noun The wearing of disguise. 化装 dressing up, role playing, and masquerade 乔装打扮，角色扮演和化装。 Example sentencesExamples Approximately fifty masquerade types appeared in the 1993 festival. Over her long and varied career, she has used masquerade, performance and role-playing to extend the frontiers of her own identity. This distance functions like a mask or masquerade, revealing more than it hides. Some were dressed in costumes made from animal heads or fur - the origin of the contemporary Halloween masquerade. Here is combined a long deep legacy of dress-up for masquerade, for carnival, for possession by the Gods combined with personal creativity and ingenuity. These drawings and models were juxtaposed with photographs of adult masquerade performances and examples of the masks themselves. Rather, it presented and discussed children's masquerade in Africa, a subject little explored but much witnessed by scholars studying African cultures. Meanwhile, because we are accustomed to the roles each actor usually performs, we become acutely aware that we are witnessing a performance, or masquerade. He upheld a New York State statute prohibiting the wearing of masks or facial disguises in public, other than for masquerade or similar entertainment purposes. The film explores this realm through a complex narrative use of masks and masquerade. Pope Joan's description of the impromptu birth of her child, while the female pope was still in mannish masquerade, is a guaranteed conversation stopper. Carnival Messiah has 100 performers from the worlds of theatre, opera, dance and masquerade, some international, others local. Traditional African masquerade, dating back to the era before emancipation, used rags, paint, and spears to portray an image of a miserable, uncivilised past. This reverse process can make these viewers unknowingly complicit with their own duping through artfully crafted masquerade. Hasn't anyone besides me noticed the flavor of masquerade and carnivalesque fantasy in Joan's behavior? Or, how can one study a masquerade without discussing the physical mask, the apparent centerpiece of any masquerade? 1.2North American A masked ball. 假面舞会 Example sentencesExamples It is a site devoted to this musical masquerade. I can't believe that you managed to get him to escort you to this masquerade. The masquerade starts after dinner from 9: 10 pm and will last into the early hours. The cost is 1,000 yuan for dinner and masquerade, 500 yuan for masquerade only. The best part was to be the New Year's eve masquerade. Synonyms masked ball, masque, fancy-dress party verb ˌmaskəˈreɪdˌmɑːskəˈreɪdˌmæskəˈreɪd [no object] 1Pretend to be someone one is not. 假装，假扮 a journalist masquerading as a man in distress 一个假扮成穷困潦倒者的记者。 Example sentencesExamples He masquerades as a bounty hunter and joins a small group of actors traveling to the King's palace to entertain the King, meeting the leader of the group, a charismatic young man with a taste for danger and beautiful women. There are many people that go around masquerading as boxing fans. A man working in the Post Office turns out to be a special agent with the skill to uncover aliens masquerading as humans. The ambitious teenager masquerades as pilot, doctor and lawyer while mainlining in embezzlement. The rumours that this weblog is secretly written by a teenage prostitute masquerading as a 37 year old comedian are greatly exaggerated. Someone could come across border masquerading as a border patrol agent. Is this or isn't this a secret release from James masquerading under a different name? In the first, they chatted simultaneously with a woman and with a man masquerading as a woman, in an effort to spot the real woman. The protagonists aren't rich characters masquerading as poor. It's just a criminal gang masquerading as Loyalists. After the usual anti-war stuff, he complains that ‘He is a Tory masquerading as a Labour politician’. I was certainly startled by the two people I saw masquerading as my parents. A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania. And now many suspicious minds have concluded there is more than one person masquerading as the King. Lighthearted and serious at the same time, the story tells of a ruler who masquerades as a lowly sty-warden to observe what the community's various members do for the good of the whole. When he masquerades as someone else, he is just a fake. Synonyms pretend to be, pose as, pass oneself off as, impersonate, disguise oneself as, simulate, profess to be rare personate 1.1 Be disguised or passed off as something else. 冒充 idle gossip that masquerades as news 地方报中冒充成新闻的闲言碎语。 Example sentencesExamples She ended up working for a business that masquerades as a charity. I popped into the new coffee shop I spoke of a few days back and was served with a highly mediocre cup of sludgy end-of-day coffee masquerading as an Americano. This is a fully fledged computer masquerading as a gaming gadget, and - as you can tell from the price - it is aimed not at children, but overgrown kids. All such hopes have turned to ashes as we now contemplate this sad, trouble-plagued, expensive tram system masquerading as a public service. Is it a personality flaw masquerading as a political philosophy? One of e-mail's drawbacks is that it masquerades as communication when it is best used for informing, broadcasting, or scheduling. At one point as I was wading through gravy, gristle and fat that was masquerading as lamb cutlets, I thought I found a prime piece of meat. And because it masquerades as news, we naturally let our guard down, invoking a built in trust of that which is media establishment. A modern reproduction that masquerades as brass it may be, but still it is beautiful. The outbreak of a mass emailing worm, which masquerades as a matchmaking program, has been brought under control. Don't tell me this is masquerading under the guise of some kind of tribute. Badly acted, written and directed, it is nothing more than a dirty movie masquerading as a character study. It has become a business masquerading as a sport. It is just that, at this level, if you are serious about winning, you need to be ruthless when presented with anything vaguely masquerading as a chance. The lesson is dishonest in that it masquerades as science while including misrepresentations and factual errors. I submit that it is only a game masquerading as an athletic event. In reality, this is a gorgeous dessert masquerading as health food. But the slogan of freedom masquerading as moral clarity is quite another. We need to speak out against intolerance that masquerades as tolerance. There I was, patiently reading through Chapter Thirty, when I reached something that was masquerading as the end. Derivatives masquerader noun ˌmaskəˈreɪdəˌmɑːskəˈreɪdəˌmæskəˈreɪdər The exhibition also included a number of drawings and small models of masqueraders made by children, which generated a significant amount of interest from visitors. Example sentencesExamples While these masqueraders wore the traditional sailor uniforms, their headpieces portrayed symbols representative of the festive Christmas season. My presence also made other differences, as the masqueraders occasionally stopped in their performance to pose for my camera. Early accounts report that masqueraders participated in generating this reputation by joining battles and terrorizing encroaching communities by night. The original date of the launch would have been a pre-season first, forcing masqueraders to choose between the launch of two large bands. Origin Late 16th century: from French mascarade, from Italian mascherata, from maschera 'mask'. mascara from late 19th century: Acting and clowning are indirectly linked in mascara, from Italian maschera, which goes back to an Arabic word meaning ‘buffoon’. Most of the earliest English uses refer to theatrical make-up, though the first known, from 1886, suggests a more discreet use by gentlemen: ‘For darkening the eyebrows and moustaches without greasing them and making them prominent’. Through Italian maschera mascara is also linked to mask (mid 16th century) and masquerade (late 16th century). Rhymes abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade Definition of masquerade in US English: masquerade nounˌmaskəˈrādˌmæskəˈreɪd 1A false show or pretense. 伪装，假装；欺骗 his masquerade ended when he was arrested Example sentencesExamples The mainly young protesters, many in their teens, defied the security forces' assaults and chanted slogans against the upcoming presidential elections, calling it a masquerade. Dr Watson was seldom in danger of seeing through any of these masquerades. I had to think of a way to end this masquerade, but a crowd had formed to watch and I didn't want to break up something that could be considered cool. Everday life is almost solely composed of a series of ritualized masquerades. If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end. It is unlikely we will soon return to a masquerade of can-can supported grandeur and today's parade music must bow to that reality-not the other way around. Now, though, unable to be true to himself, his painting too became a masquerade. As masquerades start to unravel and tanks roll into town Charlotte is forced to decide whose safety matters most. Later in the novel, Clara performs a masquerade in reverse, pretending to be a governess while she is still working as a servant. Some drawings are barely colored at all, others more fully, but one invariably feels that the artist is engaged in a masquerade of his own, pretending to be a child grown impatient with rules. But still, ever since I began this masquerade, I had tried to change everything. This belief makes each of the parties put up the masquerade up to the very end in the hope that once the prize is won, they would be able to jettison the other parties. There are some journalists and war reporters who, despite years of experience, are very opinionated and whose masquerade of objectivity is easy to see through. Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film. Someone call the Washington Times and alert them to this sly wolfish masquerade! On the one hand, looking within from without causes her to adopt and discard various socially approved feminine masquerades whilst her ‘real’ self remains in hiding. Synonyms pretence, deception, pose, act, front, facade, disguise, dissimulation, cover-up, bluff, subterfuge, play-acting, make-believe 1.1 The wearing of disguise. 化装 dressing up, role playing, and masquerade 乔装打扮，角色扮演和化装。 Example sentencesExamples The film explores this realm through a complex narrative use of masks and masquerade. Here is combined a long deep legacy of dress-up for masquerade, for carnival, for possession by the Gods combined with personal creativity and ingenuity. Pope Joan's description of the impromptu birth of her child, while the female pope was still in mannish masquerade, is a guaranteed conversation stopper. This reverse process can make these viewers unknowingly complicit with their own duping through artfully crafted masquerade. Hasn't anyone besides me noticed the flavor of masquerade and carnivalesque fantasy in Joan's behavior? Over her long and varied career, she has used masquerade, performance and role-playing to extend the frontiers of her own identity. Meanwhile, because we are accustomed to the roles each actor usually performs, we become acutely aware that we are witnessing a performance, or masquerade. Carnival Messiah has 100 performers from the worlds of theatre, opera, dance and masquerade, some international, others local. Rather, it presented and discussed children's masquerade in Africa, a subject little explored but much witnessed by scholars studying African cultures. He upheld a New York State statute prohibiting the wearing of masks or facial disguises in public, other than for masquerade or similar entertainment purposes. This distance functions like a mask or masquerade, revealing more than it hides. Some were dressed in costumes made from animal heads or fur - the origin of the contemporary Halloween masquerade. Approximately fifty masquerade types appeared in the 1993 festival. Or, how can one study a masquerade without discussing the physical mask, the apparent centerpiece of any masquerade? These drawings and models were juxtaposed with photographs of adult masquerade performances and examples of the masks themselves. Traditional African masquerade, dating back to the era before emancipation, used rags, paint, and spears to portray an image of a miserable, uncivilised past. 1.2North American A masked ball. 假面舞会 Example sentencesExamples The masquerade starts after dinner from 9: 10 pm and will last into the early hours. The best part was to be the New Year's eve masquerade. I can't believe that you managed to get him to escort you to this masquerade. The cost is 1,000 yuan for dinner and masquerade, 500 yuan for masquerade only. It is a site devoted to this musical masquerade. Synonyms masked ball, masque, fancy-dress party verbˌmaskəˈrādˌmæskəˈreɪd [no object] 1Pretend to be someone one is not. 假装，假扮 a journalist masquerading as a man in distress 一个假扮成穷困潦倒者的记者。 Example sentencesExamples It's just a criminal gang masquerading as Loyalists. And now many suspicious minds have concluded there is more than one person masquerading as the King. The ambitious teenager masquerades as pilot, doctor and lawyer while mainlining in embezzlement. Is this or isn't this a secret release from James masquerading under a different name? A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania. The rumours that this weblog is secretly written by a teenage prostitute masquerading as a 37 year old comedian are greatly exaggerated. A man working in the Post Office turns out to be a special agent with the skill to uncover aliens masquerading as humans. After the usual anti-war stuff, he complains that ‘He is a Tory masquerading as a Labour politician’. I was certainly startled by the two people I saw masquerading as my parents. Someone could come across border masquerading as a border patrol agent. The protagonists aren't rich characters masquerading as poor. There are many people that go around masquerading as boxing fans. In the first, they chatted simultaneously with a woman and with a man masquerading as a woman, in an effort to spot the real woman. When he masquerades as someone else, he is just a fake. He masquerades as a bounty hunter and joins a small group of actors traveling to the King's palace to entertain the King, meeting the leader of the group, a charismatic young man with a taste for danger and beautiful women. Lighthearted and serious at the same time, the story tells of a ruler who masquerades as a lowly sty-warden to observe what the community's various members do for the good of the whole. Synonyms pretend to be, pose as, pass oneself off as, impersonate, disguise oneself as, simulate, profess to be 1.1 Be disguised or passed off as something else. 冒充 the idle gossip that masquerades as news in some local papers 地方报中冒充成新闻的闲言碎语。 Example sentencesExamples The outbreak of a mass emailing worm, which masquerades as a matchmaking program, has been brought under control. Badly acted, written and directed, it is nothing more than a dirty movie masquerading as a character study. Don't tell me this is masquerading under the guise of some kind of tribute. At one point as I was wading through gravy, gristle and fat that was masquerading as lamb cutlets, I thought I found a prime piece of meat. But the slogan of freedom masquerading as moral clarity is quite another. We need to speak out against intolerance that masquerades as tolerance. She ended up working for a business that masquerades as a charity. There I was, patiently reading through Chapter Thirty, when I reached something that was masquerading as the end. All such hopes have turned to ashes as we now contemplate this sad, trouble-plagued, expensive tram system masquerading as a public service. It is just that, at this level, if you are serious about winning, you need to be ruthless when presented with anything vaguely masquerading as a chance. A modern reproduction that masquerades as brass it may be, but still it is beautiful. One of e-mail's drawbacks is that it masquerades as communication when it is best used for informing, broadcasting, or scheduling. The lesson is dishonest in that it masquerades as science while including misrepresentations and factual errors. This is a fully fledged computer masquerading as a gaming gadget, and - as you can tell from the price - it is aimed not at children, but overgrown kids. In reality, this is a gorgeous dessert masquerading as health food. Is it a personality flaw masquerading as a political philosophy? I popped into the new coffee shop I spoke of a few days back and was served with a highly mediocre cup of sludgy end-of-day coffee masquerading as an Americano. I submit that it is only a game masquerading as an athletic event. And because it masquerades as news, we naturally let our guard down, invoking a built in trust of that which is media establishment. It has become a business masquerading as a sport. Origin Late 16th century: from French mascarade, from Italian mascherata, from maschera ‘mask’.
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