fake

• n. 假货；骗子；假动作
• vt. 捏造；假装…的样子
• vi. 假装；做假动作
• adj. 伪造的
• n. (Fake)人名；(英)费克

犯罪分子俚语，词源不确定。可能来自词根fact, 做，词源同face, factitious. 即人为的，伪造的。

1. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

2. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

3. (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

fake

fake: [19] The use of fake for ‘produce a fraudulent copy of’ is a comparatively recent development. It used to mean ‘do up something spurious to make it seem genuine’, and in this sense seems to be a descendant of the longobsolete verb feague [16]. Essentially it is a piece of underworld slang, and as such has a rather slippery semantic history. In the 19th century it was used, like its ancestor feague, for any number of nefarious operations, including beating up and killing (‘to fake a man out and out, is to kill him’, J H Vaux, Vocabulary of the Flash Language 1812), but its current sense leads back in a straight line to its probable ultimate source, German fegen ‘polish, refurbish’.

This (like English fig ‘clothes, array’) was a derivative of the prehistoric Germanic base *feg-, a variant of *fag-, from which English gets fair ‘beautiful’.
=> fair, feast, fig

fake

of unknown origin; attested in London criminal slang as adjective (1775 "a counterfeit"), verb (1812 "to rob"), and noun (1851, "a swindle;" of persons 1888, "a swindler"), but probably older. A likely source is feague "to spruce up by artificial means," from German fegen "polish, sweep," also "to clear out, plunder" in colloquial use. "Much of our early thieves' slang is Ger. or Du., and dates from the Thirty Years' War" [Weekley]. Or it may be from Latin facere "to do." Century Dictionary notes that "thieves' slang is shifting and has no history."

The nautical word meaning "one of the windings of a cable or hawser in a coil" probably is unrelated, from Swedish veck "a fold." As a verb, "to feign, simulate" from 1941. To fake it is from 1915, jazz slang; to fake (someone) out is from 1940s, originally in sports. Related: Faked; fakes; faking. The jazz musician's fake book is attested from 1951.

fake, false

这两个形容词都含有"假的"之意。

fake： 指某物不是真的。

false： 指说明某物与真的相像，强调看上去像真的，不一定用作冒充、谎骗。

sham, fake

这两个名词均表示"冒牌货"之意。

sham： 指可以以假乱真的东西，尤指明显的欺骗。

fake： 通常指没有价值的冒牌货或代用品，但目的不一定全是为骗人。

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Oprah's passionate advocacy extends,unfortunately,to a hearty embrace of fake science.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

She achieved her fame through persistent advocacy of fake science

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

She was known as a supporter of fake science.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Harris says that American education is suffering from an epidemic of "fake math"—an emphasis on the rote memorization of formulas and steps, rather than an understanding of how math can influence the ways we see the world.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration ( ' , TSA) found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons---both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of Michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is “reader error”, more so than made-up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is " reader error," more so than made- up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in "misinterpretation or exaggeration of actual news" via social media.

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But don't overdo it or be fake about it.

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons—both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

fake designer clothing

冒牌的名设计师服装

牛津词典

a fake American accent

伪装的美国口音

牛津词典

a jacket in fake fur

人造毛皮短上衣

牛津词典

Don't go out in the sun─get a fake tan from a bottle.

别顶着太阳出去了，擦点棕褐色油装作太阳晒的就行了。

牛津词典

All the paintings proved to be fakes.

所有这些画结果证实都是赝品。

牛津词典

She faked her mother's signature on the document.

她伪造了她母亲在文件上的签字。

牛津词典

He arranged the accident in order to fake his own death.

他策划了这次事故以便造成他自己死亡的假象。

牛津词典

She's not really sick─she's just faking it .

她并不是真的病了，不过是假装的。

牛津词典

He faked a yawn.

他装着打了一个呵欠。

牛津词典

Jon faked nonchalance...

乔恩装作若无其事的样子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Maturity and emotional sophistication can't be faked.

成熟和情感上的老道是装不出来的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He faked his own death last year to collect on a $1 million insurance policy.

去年，他诈死以骗取100万美元的保险金。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The bank manager is said to have issued fake certificates.

据说那个银行经理曾出具伪造的凭证。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It's safer to fake a tan with make-up rather than subject your complexion to the harsh rays of the sun...

用化妆品打造出古铜色的皮肤比让皮肤受太阳的暴晒更为安全。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Anyway, I don't think it can be a fake.

不管怎样, 我觉得这不可能是假钞.

期刊摘选

Anyone who says he can fly like a bird is a fake.

谁要是说他能像鸟儿一样飞翔,那是在说假话.

期刊摘选

How do you know it's not fake?

你怎会知道不是假的?

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