英汉词典

charade 基本解释

• n. 看手势猜字谜游戏
• n. (Charade)人名；(阿拉伯)谢拉德

charade 词态变化

charade 中文词源

可能来自char，叽叽喳喳的声音，代指字谜游戏中的一些暗示。-ade, 名词后缀。

charade 英文词源

charade (n.)

1776, from French charade (18c.), probably from Provençal charrado "long talk, chatter," of obscure origin, perhaps from charrar "to chatter, gossip," of echoic origin. Compare Italian ciarlare, Spanish charlar "to talk, prattle." Originally not silent, but relying rather on enigmatic descriptions of the words or syllables.

As we have ever made it a Rule to shew our Attention to the Reader, by 'catching the Manners living, as they rise,' as Mr. Pope expresses it, we think ourselves obliged to give Place to the following Specimens of a new Kind of SMALL WIT, which, for some Weeks past, has been the Subject of Conversation in almost every Society, from the Court to the Cottage. The CHARADE is, in fact, a near Relation of the old Rebus. It is usually formed from a Word of two Syllables; the first Syllable is described by the Writer; then the second; they are afterwards united and the whole Word marked out .... [supplement to "The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure," volumes 58-59, 1776]

Among the examples given are:

My first makes all nature appear of one face;
At the next we find music, and beauty and grace;
And, if this Charade is most easily read,
I think that the third shou'd be thrown at my head.

[The answer is "snow-ball."]

The silent form, the main modern form, was at first a variant known as dumb charades and at first it was not a speed contest; rather it adhered to the old pattern, and the performing team acted out all the parts in order before the audience team began to guess.

There is one species of charade which is performed solely by "dumb motions," somewhat resembling the child's game of "trades and professions"; but the acting charade is a much more amusing, and more difficult matter. ["Goldoni, and Modern Italian Comedy," in "The Foreign And Colonial Quarterly Review," Volume 6, 1846]

An 1850 book, "Acting Charades," reports that Charades en Action were all the rage in French society, and that "Lately, the game has been introduced into the drawing-rooms of a few mirth-loving Englishmen. Its success has been tremendous." Welsh siarad obviously is a loan-word from French or English, but its meaning of "speak, a talk" is closer to the Provençal original.

charade 英文释义

1. a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

2. a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades

charade 双语例句

1. I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade.

我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.

他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏—他们从未相爱过。

来自《权威词典》

3. He wasn't really upset — his behaviour was just a charade.

他并不是真正心绪烦乱——他的行为只是荒谬的伪装.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.

我拒不跟他们摆出那副可悲的装模作样的姿态.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. She struggled to maintain the charade of not being afraid.

她竭力装出不害怕的样子.

来自《简明英汉词典》

charade 实用场景例句

Their whole marriage had been a charade─they had never loved each other.

他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏——他们从未相爱过。

牛津词典

Let's play charades.

咱们来玩打哑谜猜字游戏吧。

牛津词典

I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...

我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.

联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She and her three brothers played charades.

她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Were they not equally fault for perpetrating a giant charade that bound to end in tears?

难道他们不应该同样对此负责? 他们参与的规模巨大的数字游戏注定酿成泪水和痛苦.

期刊摘选

In fact, the whole offer for sale could be seen as a cynical, if necessary, charade.

事实上, 整个竞价过程都可被视为嘲讽的儿戏, 尽管这是必需的.

期刊摘选

Why would anyone put up with a charade?

谁要去忍受这种伪装?

期刊摘选

I think your charade is all played out.

我想你的哑谜游戏已经被大家看穿了.

期刊摘选

I have too much real respect for you as a human being to in that charade.

我太想把你作为一个人来真正尊重,而不是参与这个说谎的游戏.

期刊摘选

Their whole marriage had a charade ─ they had never loved each other.

他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏他们从未相爱过.

期刊摘选

He wasn't really upset — his behaviour was just a charade.

他并不是真正心绪烦乱——他的行为只是荒谬的伪装.

《简明英汉词典》

Of course, some women argue that maintaining the charade is more desirable than loafing about.

当然, 一些女人认为保留一些神秘感要比坦然相对更富有魅力.

期刊摘选

You must not refine too much upon this charade.

你切不可过分推敲这个字谜.

辞典例句

His poems, despite their dignity and felicity, have an air of charade.

他的诗篇虽然庄严巧妙, 却有猜迷之嫌.

辞典例句

From the Terrace, Charade, Lord of the Rings, Spiderman.

Terrace, Charade, 指环王, 蜘蛛侠.

期刊摘选

So after this whole charade, you didn't sleep with her?

就是说, 你辛苦伪装了那么久却没和她上床?

电影对白

The charade was over: they could hear his feet striking sharply on the asphalt going away.

他玩的把戏结束了,人们可以听到他的脚步响亮地敲击着沥青路渐渐远去.

期刊摘选

He led off the first charade.

第一段戏就由他领导演出.

辞典例句

How much longer must we sustain this charade?

我们还得忍受那个猜字谜的游戏多久?

期刊摘选

Despite being a woman, l staged a charade of being married!

作为一个女人, 我玩了一场结婚游戏!

电影对白

I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.

我拒不跟他们摆出那副可悲的装模作样的姿态.

《简明英汉词典》

Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony ( Joseph Heller )

约萨仁丝毫不为葬礼上浮夸的象征性仪式所激动 ( 约瑟夫赫勒 )

期刊摘选

She struggled to maintain the charade of not being afraid.

她竭力装出不害怕的样子.

《简明英汉词典》

Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.

他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏—他们从未相爱过。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade.

我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。

柯林斯例句

The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.

联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。

柯林斯例句