英:[dɪ'səmblə]
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英:[dɪ'səmblə]
美:[dɪ'səmblə]
verb
transitive verb
to hide under a false appearance
dissembling the facts
to put on the appearance of : simulate
She lay down and dissembled sleep.
intransitive verb
to put on a false appearance : conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense
He had dissembled about the risks involved.
"掩盖自己的观点、性格等,用虚假的外表来伪装自己,假装一件事情是它不是的人",1520年代,来自 dissemble 的代词。"一个 dissembler 是试图掩盖自己是谁的人; 一个 hypocrite 是试图让自己看起来比他实际上更好,尤其是为了显得更好而伪装的人。" [世纪词典]
Middle English dissymbulen, dissymblen, probably reshaping of dissimulen in same sense (after resemblen "to resemble," semblance semblance, and like forms), borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French dissimuler, dissumuler "to hide under a false appearance," borrowed from Latin dissimulāre — more at dissimulate
The first known use of dissemble was in the 15th century
dissent1 of 2verb
to differ in opinion : disagree
dissent2 of 2noun
difference of opinion
dissensionnoun
disagreement in opinion : discord
disseminateverb
to spread around as if sowing seed
disseminate ideas
disseminateverb
to spread around as if sowing seed
disseminate ideas
disseminateverb
to spread around as if sowing seed
disseminate ideas
dissembleverb
to hide one's true feelings : put on a false appearance
1 On television, comes across as a deft but maddening dissembler, sailing through the Sunday shows on currents of lies and backtalk — the exact personality that Trump wants to put out front.
2 The fair-seeming dissembler he trusts may stab him at the poll.
3 What a dissembler I've become; but I do mean to look in on Charles, before I go to this Eldorado place, and there may be time for a game of draughts!
4 But it is necessary to know how to colour over this nature effectively, and to be a great pretender and dissembler.
5 As are Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, always knowing the precise right play: who’s dissembling, where’s the weak spot.
6 Mostly, it solidifies Albert as an heir to that 19th-century American archetype, the confidence man, the smooth-talking dissembler who takes advantage of the credulous to sell faith, politics, whatever.
7 But not OK to be caught lying, and lying to Parliament, a place of practiced, polished dissemblers ready to be ruthless with the failed liar.
8 But as a professional dissembler, he knows better.
9 This facility will soon mandate that all visitors be vaccinated, but my relative plans to dissemble in order to evade the requirement.
10 Since the beginning of his political career, Donald J. Trump has misled, mischaracterized, dissembled, exaggerated and, at times, flatly lied.
11 Jack, you bad egg, hooligan, varlet, dissembler, how dare you are?
杰克,你这个坏蛋,流氓,恶棍,伪君子,竟敢欺负我?
12 Hearts dissemble, jealousies can spring up out of nowhere and erotic desire leads everyone astray.
13 Thirteen years ago, with Tony Blair poised to enter Downing Street, his media strategist, Campbell, already had a record as a dissembler and a fabricator of newspaper stories.
14 Cheney is a serial dissembler, a right-wing extremist and one of the premier warmongers of his or any other time.
15 "They will give you nothing but flattery and lies. The Spicers are dissemblers and braggarts and the Brotherhood is full of pirates."
16 Perhaps it’s because dissemblers often have trouble anticipating the future; they’re stuck in the right now.
17 No; those tough arms, Thy force, assisted; else, thou young dissembler—— Theod.
18 In my own dealings with Assange, he has often overstated his abilities as a hacker; he is a self-confessed dissembler.
19 He recently tweeted, “Smoking gun found! Obama pal and noted dissembler Susan Rice said to have been spying on Trump campaign.”
20 “Obama pal and noted dissembler Susan Rice said to have been spying on Trump campaign.”