disguise yourself as somebody/something• In May 1528, while Angus was away, James disguised himself as a groom and made a dash for Stirling.• He imagined a monster who disguised himself as a kid to attack an earthling.• Brin Weare fooled the enemy by disguising himself as a priest.• To get into the building, I disguised myself as a reporter.• It does this by disguising itself as an aphid, in order to avoid being detected by the ants.• If that happens the aliens will be able to disguise themselves as humans and invadeEarth.
disguise something as something• Well, it may be hard to disguise junk ashealth food.
1[countableC, uncountableU]HIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEE something that you wear to change your appearance and hide who you are, or the act of wearing this 伪装物,化装用具;伪装
His disguise didn’t fool anyone.
他的伪装没能骗过任何人。
She wore dark glasses in an absurd attempt at disguise.
她戴了副墨镜企图伪装,样子很可笑。
2in disguise
a)HIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEwearing a disguise 乔装的,假扮的
The woman in the park turned out to be a police officer in disguise.
公园里的那个女人原来是一个乔装的警察。
b)HIDE/NOT SHOWmade to seem like something else that is better 变相的〔使看起来似乎更好〕
disguise• Morning comes, and Blue starts busying himself with another disguise.• Friends gave us long robes and veils for disguise.• But it was a good disguise, he told himself.• The crash was a blessing in disguise for Schwab.• The major problem is that it is just another irresponsible tax cut in disguise that would mostly benefitrichfolks like Forbes.• Luther was the devil in disguise.• The peddler in disguise showed Snow White her beautiful, colorful laces.• He went across in a variety of disguises, or sent emissaries, and negotiated the price.• Inevitably though, these disguisesinspired in readers a sense of vicariousdanger or disgust.• The army does not officially admit that it uses disguises.
Origindisguise1
(1300-1400)Old Frenchdesguiser, from guise“appearance”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + DISGUISE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤clever, good巧妙的/出色的偽裝➤thin易看出的偽裝◇State regulation often served as a thin disguise for corruption.國家規定常常成為腐敗遮羞布。VERB + DISGUISE➤adopt, don, put on, wear採取/披上/穿上/穿着偽裝◇She adopted an elaborate disguise to help her pass through the town unrecognized.她的精心偽裝讓她穿過整個鎮子也沒有被認出來。➤be是偽裝◇His angelic look is just a disguise.他天使般的面容只是個偽裝。➤see through看穿偽裝◇We all saw through his disguise immediately.我們都一眼就看穿了他的偽裝。PREPOSITION➤in disguise化了裝◇He preferred to travel in disguise.他偏愛喬裝打扮出行。disguise
verb
ADVERB | VERB + DISGUISE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADVERB➤cleverly, cunningly巧妙地/狡猾地偽裝◇She was cleverly disguised as a policewoman.她巧妙地扮成警察。VERB + DISGUISE➤cannot無法掩飾▸➤try to試圖掩飾PREPOSITION➤from對⋯掩蓋◇You cannot disguise what you are doing from your family.你所做的事對家人是掩蓋不了的。PHRASES➤an attempt to disguise sth掩飾⋯的企圖◇He made no attempt to disguise his liking for her.他毫不掩飾對她的好感。➤disguise yourself as sb/sth把自己偽裝成⋯◇He was disguised as a police officer.他偽裝成一個警官。➤heavily disguised, well disguised偽裝得難以辨認/得很好◇He spoke in a heavily disguised voice.他用完全裝出來的嗓音說話。➤barely disguised, poorly disguised, thinly disguised略加掩飾;掩飾得不周到;簡單地偽裝◇In her speech she made several thinly disguised attacks on the president.她在演說中對總統作了幾次幾乎不加掩飾的抨擊。