中英互译
phony
英 /ˈfəʊni/美 /ˈfoʊni/
基本释义
- adj.<非正式>伪造的,假的;<非正式>虚伪的,做作的
- n.<非正式>骗子,假冒者;<非正式>假货,赝品
复数phonies
比较级phonier
最高级phoniest
GRE
词语例句
<非正式>伪造的,假的adj.
考研He'd telephoned with some phony excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
他用一些假的借口打电话,她根本就不信。
Somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring.
从19世纪某个时间点开始,更多的艺术家开始认为幸福毫无意义,是虚假的,最糟糕的是有人认为它很无趣。
<非正式>虚伪的,做作的adj.
The people are so phony.
这些人太假了。
<非正式>骗子,假冒者cn.
She's a phony, a fake.
她是个伪君子、骗子。
<非正式>假货,赝品cn.
He can tell that the painting is a phony.
他可以看出这幅画是赝品。
- He'd telephoned with some phony excuse she didn't believe for a minute.他用一些假的借口打电话,她根本就不信。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth's Daffodils to Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.但从19世纪某个时间点开始,更多的艺术家开始认为幸福毫无意义,是虚假的,最糟糕的是有人认为它很无趣,就像我们从华兹华斯的《咏水仙》到波德莱尔的《恶之花》中读到的一样。
- No one could phony a list like that.没有人能够假造像这样的一份清单。
网络短语
- phony money假钞票;钞票
- phony targets伪目标;假象目的
- a phony骗子
- phony tough guy冒牌硬汉
- Phony baloney欺人之谈
词语扩展
英英释义
- n.a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- adj.fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
词源
- phony(赝品):英国骗子用来诈骗的镀金项链以前,英国的骗子经常用表面镀金的铜项链冒充纯金项链来实施诈骗。在黑话中,他们把这种项链称为fawney,该词来自爱尔兰语fainne(项链)。英语单词phony(或phoney)就来自fawney,可以表示任何假冒的商品。 phony:['fəʊnɪ] n.赝品,假冒者adj.假的,欺骗的
- phony假的来自phoney的美式拼写。