(make)believe [think] that the moon is made of green cheese

(要人)相信最荒唐的事; 愚蠢到极点, 愚弄人

属类：综合句库-英汉综合-

(instance of)colourful exaggeration or make-believe

绘声绘色的夸张或虚构;虚构的情节

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

No man was more incapable of flashy make-believe than Mr. Casaubon

卡苏明先生与别人不同,从不弄虚作假。

属类：综合句库--

Rococo art portrayed a world of artificiality,make-believe ,and game-playing.

洛可可艺术描绘出一个人工的、假装的和玩乐性的世界。

属类：英汉句库--

Let' s make believe we are doctors

让我们来假扮成医生。

属类：综合句库--

Three and a half million spectators line the pasadena streets and another 70 million television viewers watch miles of flower-bedecked floats transform the city into a make-believe world of beauty and imagination

三百五十万观众聚集在帕萨迪纳的街道两旁,还有七千万电视观众观看长达数英里的扎满鲜花的彩车,把整个城市变成了一个美丽、神奇的虚幻世界。

属类：综合句库--

They threaded their way through the narrow, make-believe streets

他们鱼贯穿过那些狭小的所谓的街道。

属类：综合句库--

dissembling enough, he was not sufficiently oily and make-believe

他虽是虚伪极了,可还是油滑的不够,假装的不够。

属类：综合句库--

Little Boys like to make believe they are flying an airplane.

小男孩们喜欢假装他们在开飞机。

属类：学习英语-成语例句-

the land of make-believe ;the land of television.

虚幻的境界;电视的范围

属类：综合句库--

Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground

一念至诚的将假作真,灯光似乎都从地上飘起。

属类：综合句库--

Then it struck him that lying was often a manifestation of joy and happiness as well as a form of creativity, like make-believe in the play of a child

因此恍然大悟,撒谎往往是高兴快乐的流露,也算是一种创造,好比小孩子游戏里的自骗自(Pseudoluege)。

属类：综合句库--

They were asked to plan a $1.5 billion investment for a make-believe Shell company in a fictitious country, Gourami, involving complex business, social and environmental issues.?

在活动期间,这些学生需要为假设位于一个虚拟国家Gourami的壳牌公司制定一个价值15亿美元的投资计划,其中涉及复杂的商业、社会和环境问题。

属类：单位简介-壳牌公司网站-壳牌新闻

In a country in which, to play a social part, you must either earn your income or make believe that you earn it.

在这个国家,一个人如果要在社会上发挥作用,就必须自食其力,或者至少使人相信他能自食其力。

属类：综合句库-英汉翻译-

1: AS HUMAN beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache. So declared Terry Guo, the chairman of Taiwan's Hon Hai, earlier this year. 2: His firm's Foxconn division is China's biggest contract manufacturer and makes most of Apple's whizzy devices. 3: He has since apologised for his remarks and insisted they were taken out of context. 4: Perhaps they were, but fresh signs emerged this week that he does indeed believe in the law of the jungle.

1:富士康拥有超过1百万员工，人类也是动物，如何管理这100万动物让我很头疼，这是今年年初鸿海集团主席郭台铭曾发表的言论。2:他旗下的子公司富士康是中国最大的合同制造商,并为苹果公司供应了最多的先进配件装置。3:后来他为此番"员工动物论"出面道歉同时坚称媒体的报道是断章取义。4: 或许关于此事的报道是有失偏颇,但从这周的最新迹象可以看出的是，他确实信奉"丛林法则" 。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-丛林法则 夏普和鸿海交易陷入困局

1: Mr Sharma does not believe the shared success of emerging economies can continue. Some countries will break out from the pack, others will disappoint. 2: The very concept of emerging markets may lose its appeal, he writes, as investors discover they need to distinguish between them: “These economies are now too big to be lumped into one marginal class, and are better understood as individual nations.” 3: But if emerging markets stop making sense as an investment category, what will happen to the globe-trotting emerging-markets expert? 4: “Breakout Nations” is something of a paradox: a broad, breezy book in praise of narrowness and depth.

1:新兴市场共享成功，但沙尔曼认为前景不太乐观，有些国家将会突出重围，而剩下的则暗自神伤。2:他在书中说，当投资者们发现急需发展地区特色的时候，新兴市场这个概念也许会失去吸引力：“事到如今，将这些新兴国家统一归为的边缘国，已经太大材小用了，独立发展将是更好的选择。”3:但如果新兴市场国们不再归为一种投资类别，那么，那些周游列新兴国的专家们又将何去何从？4:“经济突破型国家”一书有点自相矛盾：它视角广泛、轻松活泼，富有深度却又略显狭隘。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-新兴市场,取舍之间

1: It is easy to scoff at the idea of an arms firm preaching ethics, particularly one that is still making money from deals concluded before its squeaky-clean rules were put in place. 2: Nor is an industry veteran, such as Mr King, an obvious new broom. 3: But he has all the fervour of a true convert. 4: “You have to believe in it,” he says. “It's a journey you personally have to make.” 5: Helpfully, a significant part of his own remuneration is, he says, linked to making BAE “a benchmark” for responsible behaviour in the industry. 6: Shareholders, he claims, are supportive. 7: They have accepted that it is better to lose business in some parts of the world than to expose BAE to reputational risk. 8: As for the Saudis, Mr King says that they too now want to do things differently. 9: And if a rival firm were to offer to do business with them in the “traditional” way? 10: “Then the Saudis will have to make their choice,” he says.

1:要嘲笑一个军火商去鼓吹道德是很容易的，尤其是这个公司在实施它一尘不染的规定之前达成的那些交易还在挣钱的时候。2:一个身经百战的业内老兵如金先生者也不是一个新官。3:但他拥有进行真正转变的所有热情。4:“你必须相信它，”他说，“它是一条你必须亲自踏上的旅途。”5:有帮助的是，他说，把BAE塑造成业内负责任行为的“标杆”这一目标将与他自己酬劳的很大一部分相关联。6:他表示，股东们很支持。7:他们情愿接受在世界某地失去业务，也不愿BAE承受声誉风险。8:至于沙特人，金先生说，他们现在也想改变行事方法。9:那么如果一个竞争对手公司提出和他们用“传统”的方式做生意呢？10: “那么沙特人就必须做出他们的选择，” 他说。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版- 清白先生 Mr Clean

1: He was elected to Congress the year they got married, and they stayed in Washington for 28 years. 2: For more than half that time he was away from home while she raised Mike, Jack, Steve and Susan, tripping over bags of marbles and toy trucks, burying pet alligators, visiting the emergency room, measuring out her life in Pablum spoons. 3: She was a den mother for cub scouts and taught Sunday School, but by 1965 she couldn't be Bionic Woman any more. A psychiatrist told her she had to believe she was important again.

1:在他们结婚当年，杰拉尔德入选国会，他们在华盛顿待了28个年头。2:这期间杰拉尔德有一半时间都不在她身边，她一人将4个孩子——麦克，杰克，斯蒂芬和苏珊拉扯大：会被一大袋的弹子儿和玩具卡车绊倒；埋葬宠物短吻鳄；带着孩子看医生；在乏味的碗筷之间经营着自己的生活。3:她还是童子军女训导，在主日学校上课。但1956年，她再也无法扮演“无敌女金刚”的角色了，精神医生告诉她必须得开始关注自己了。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-直率的前第一夫人贝蒂·福特

The international media, whose questions about S-21 he patiently answered time after time, called him Cambodia’s Goya. He brushed it off. His principal fear was that young Cambodians would not learn about—or, worse still, would not believe—what he had witnessed. He painted, he said, so that Cambodia would never turn on itself so monstrously again.

国际媒体不断询问关于S-21的事，他都耐心作答。媒体称他是柬埔寨的戈雅，他对此不置臧否。他最深的恐惧是年轻一代柬埔寨人可能不会了解这些——或者更糟，不会相信他所见证的一切。他作画，他说，这样柬埔寨就不会再次变得如此怪异，如此邪恶。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-用绘画保命的柬埔寨人凡纳

"That's not a market, " says the senator. "That's Alice in Wonderland make-believe . "

“那不是一个市场”他说，“那是虚构的爱丽丝奇遇记”。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Make no mistake, some games support real economies inside make- believe universes.

别搞错，某些游戏在虚拟世界里支持着真实经济。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

No, putting them on some make-believe podium will really push them away and leave you a nutless disappointment to mankind.

不，把他们放在虚伪的神座上只能让他们离你越走越远，留给你人世间无力的绝望。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

It is hardly surprising if students sometimes find this kind of make-believe question a waste of their time.

不难看到，学生有时觉得这类问题是在浪费时间。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Her mother always winked at Bridget when the stories were over. "A little make-believe never hurt anyone. "

当故事讲完后，妈妈经常朝着布丽姬特眨眼，“小小的编造不会伤害任何人。”

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

When you first encounter it, there is a whiff of sci-fi make-believe about this tearing down of ancient language barriers.

当你第一次遇到谷歌翻译，这种打破了古老语言间障碍事情，让人觉得有点虚幻的科幻小说味道。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Okay, I don't want to hear any more about this make-believe Fred person.

够了我不想再听这个什么虚构Fred

属类：无分类双语句库-home.ebigear.com-

The ad is for a "Corporate Eminence Leader" which is a make-believe title, and make-believe is not a good look if your business is audit.

广告找的是“企业杰出领导者”，这是个“假装”的标题，在审计业，“假装”并不是好形象。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

All her previous make-believe dogs could do marvelous things.

她以前虚幻的狗都能干意想不到的事。

属类：英汉句库-www.ebigear.com-

Another story goes that when he was a boy playing cowboys and Indians, he shouted "bing" instead of "bang" after a make-believe gunshot.

另一种说法是，在他还是小孩时，他扮演牛仔和印第安人，在一次假装射击时，他嘴里喊的是“Bing”而不是“bang”。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Boys will love the "bandit" printed hoodie, which can be zipped down over the eyes, enabling great games of make-believe .

男孩子们会喜欢印有土匪的帽子，这种帽子有拉链可以拉下来遮住眼睛，方便玩儿假扮游戏。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-