ersatz

1 The idea of buying an ersatz butter tart from a bakery?

2 As Boyle intuited, everything can be traced back to the industrial revolution, both the glorious Olympic architecture and its ersatz neighbours.

3 “Atlas Shrugged” is a nightmare picture not of America as it was in 1957, but of the ersatz Soviet Union it might become.

4 His cadenzas had fitfulness rather than flair, and when he tried to sweeten his tone, it felt ersatz, closer to Splenda than pure cane.

5 There were faded cloud-splotched denims and ersatz vintage Stars ’n’ Stripes T-shirts.

6 Those unimpressed with the ersatz offerings on the Strip can head 15 minutes south to a Great Gatsby soirée set inside a private airplane hangar.

7 These include the “sermons” Buck has given at an ersatz church created especially for the show: the “First Chickapaw Tabernacle of Hope and Holiness,” a place where Buck can be really ugly.

8 In the 16 months since the first graft, the ersatz skin has not yet been rejected by any of the patients.

第一次植皮后的16个月中，人造皮肤在每个病人身上都还没有排斥现象。

9 You can hear echoes of that monument to sweaty bravura in the Weeks' music, which they call "sludge-pop", fair enough considering this muddy mush of soul, Americana, roots rock and ersatz raunch.

10 But like everything else about him, they’re threaded with ersatz values and designed to fall apart.

11 Half the time I felt like I was in an ersatz fashion version of the musical “Hair.”

12 Ms. Danner aside, the attractive cast members register as a little sheepish, as if self-conscious about trying to make ersatz Chekhov sound like the real thing while maintaining the rhythms of laugh-track banter.

13 Like Joey, the ersatz horse in that production, the elephants in “Circus 1903” make no effort to conceal their artifice.

14 In Ms. Choit’s pictures, the shoes were luxury goods in the ’80s, but are now relics with worn soles, nestled in her photographs among ersatz fruits and pastries made of cheap plastic.

15 “There was a national madness, a pure insanity,” she said of the country’s housing bubble, in which tens of thousands of families moved into ersatz new developments that are now falling apart.

16 “This is ersatz Mediterranean, and the homes are surrounded by Home Depot-style instant landscaping with palm trees, shrubbery and carpets of sand,” Mr. Grogan said.

17 One only has to look — hard as that may be — at a laughable, ersatz recreation of Monroe's classic musical number from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" to get a whiff of how bad this stinker is.

18 Critics called it ersatz history and said the park would become less comfortable — “Some kind of Disneyland fake,” one critic called it.

19 Faux crawfish, ersatz shrimp: They’re less a matter of alchemy and transfiguration than sleight of hand in a circle of sawdust.

20 I've come to terms with her ersatz shrink routine, but the tittering… well, I draw the line at that.

1 合成

synthetic composite synthesis remix synthesize conflate component complex compound resultant built-up compositive fusion blending conflation go

2 人造的

false artificial synthetic man-made faux technical paste inorganic postiche

3 假

suppositive flash false fake artificial straw mock painted dummy bum queer bogus sham spoof phony assumed dud spurious quack jive snide pseudo untruthful feigned gil faux pasteboard hyped-up pseud bogue bodger supposititious suppositious postiche got-up pseud-

4 代用的

succedaneous false surrogate substitutive synthetic

5 代用品

lashup substitute surrogate representative succedaneum substitutor proxy bastard succedaneous backup fill-in hokum

6 仿造

artificial mock mimic dummy counterfeit imitation simulated imitative reproduction pattern reproduce imitate sham imitated patterning calque copy

7 人造

technical false paste artificial synthetic man-made inorganic faux postiche

8 代用

succedaneous false surrogate substitutive substitution pro- substitute sub synthetic shift exchange

9 代用物

stand-in

10 虚假的

fake hollow mock deceptive bogus sham mendacious factitious

11 假的

false fake artificial COD bogus untrue fictitious spurious pseudo untruthful faux pseud supposititious play-play schlenter play inauthentic suppositive flash straw mock painted dummy bum queer sham spoof phony assumed dud quack jive snide feigned gil pasteboard hyped-up bogue bodger suppositious postiche got-up pseud-

12 不真诚的

thin false artificial soapy disingenuous

13 仿制品

skeuomorph

14 仿造的

artificial mock mimic dummy counterfeit imitation simulated imitative sham imitated

15 合成的

synthetic composite component complex compound resultant built-up compositive

16 虚假

fake hollow mock deceptive bogus sham mendacious factitious deceptively falsehood pretence falsity

17 仿制

mock -ette

18 仿制的

mock