phony
英 ['fəʊnɪ]
美['foni]
- adj. 假的，欺骗的
- n. 假冒者；赝品
词态变化
复数: phonies;比较级: phonier;最高级: phoniest;
助记提示
1. fawney: a gilt ring that is passed off as a gold ring. The word is part of British thieves' jargon.
2. fawney: Slang for a ring. Derived from the feudal ritual in which supplicants and inferiors would kiss a lord's ring when 'fawning' or 'kissing up' to him.
3. fawney => phoney, phony.
4. fawney "gilt brass ring used by swindlers". => 以次充好、以假乱真。
5. 记法 1: phony音“封你”→再造假就封了你的厂子
2. fawney: Slang for a ring. Derived from the feudal ritual in which supplicants and inferiors would kiss a lord's ring when 'fawning' or 'kissing up' to him.
3. fawney => phoney, phony.
4. fawney "gilt brass ring used by swindlers". => 以次充好、以假乱真。
5. 记法 1: phony音“封你”→再造假就封了你的厂子
中文词源
phony 假的
来自phoney的美式拼写。
英英释意
- 1. a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold
英文词源
- phony (adj.)
- also phoney, "not genuine," 1899, perhaps an alteration of fawney "gilt brass ring used by swindlers."
His most successful swindle was selling "painted" or "phony" diamonds. He had a plan of taking cheap stones, and by "doctoring" them make them have a brilliant and high class appearance. His confederates would then take the diamonds to other pawnbrokers and dispose of them. ["The Jewelers Review," New York, April 5, 1899]
The noun meaning "phony person or thing" is attested from 1902.
实用场景例句
- There's a phony note in her letters.
- 她的信里有一种虚情假意的口气.
辞典例句
- They were burned by the phony stock deal.
- 他们在那虚假的股票交易中遭受损失.
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- The Miss Blogger champion is a phony.
- 博客小姐的冠军是假的.
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- He was a fake. I always hate phony people like that.
- 他是个骗子. 我一直都很讨厌像他那样的骗子.
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- None portrayed themselves a phony style. Each of them received a job offer.
- 没有人用虚假的风格打造自己, 他们最后都得到了想要的工作.
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- The best way to make friends is to be yourself. No one likes a phony personality.
- 交友的最佳方式是自然大方. 没有人喜欢虚伪的人格.
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- It's easy to create a phony identity in cyberspace.
- 在信息网络世界很容易制作假身份.
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- That man is a total phony, he palms himself off as a Ph . d.
- 那家伙是个彻彻底底的冒牌货, 他冒称是个博士.
《简明英汉词典》
- He was burned by that phony stock deal.
- 他上了那个假股票买卖的当.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- But Holden acts like a phony too.
- 然而,霍尔顿自己其实也很虚伪.
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- He boasted that he had crashed the United States with a phony passport.
- 他曾夸口说,他曾凭假护照闯进美国.
辞典例句
- Did you have a trainee make a phony offer to Lecter in the senator's name?
- 你可有个见习生,冒参议员之名向莱达提出一个虚假的建议?
电影对白
- Print out a phony pink slip and leave It in their mailbox.
- 打印一张假解聘通知书放到他们的信箱里.
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- He was working, he had told his brother, on a new sym phony, his sixth.
- 他告诉他的兄弟, 他正在创作一支新的交响曲, 他的第六交响曲.
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- The phony glamour of night clubs soon became stale and boring.
- 夜总会那种虚荣的繁华不久便失去了新意而使人生厌.
《简明英汉词典》
- His friends are tired of all his phony dramatics.
- 他的朋友们对他那一套假做作都腻透了.
辞典例句
- They cooked up a scheme to get people to donate money to their phony company.
- 他们设计了一个骗局让上当者把钱捐给他们的假公司.
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- Misinformation from bureaucrats or phony experts who have never crawled into a collapsed building kills you.
- 来自于从未在建筑残骸中艰难攀行过的官僚分子冒牌专家的错误知识资讯使你丧命.
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- During his life Confucius loathed spineless, fawning sycophants, but he particularly phony gentlemen who appeared respectable.
- 孔子一生不耻没气节或巧言令色的小人, 但他尤其最痛恶与貌似恭谨的伪君子为伍.
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- Your phony school demeans real colleges everywhere!
- 你这个冒牌学校在诋毁真正的大学!
电影对白
- How much did the phony trades cost the government?
- 这些虚假交易给政府造成了多大损失?
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- B : Be yourself . Nobody likes a phony!
- 自然一些. 没有人会喜欢装腔作势的人!
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- Mobile phones are supposedly employed as instruments to prove the existence of the phony substance.
- 手机是被用来检验这种捏造出来的假物质工具.
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- The phony managed to slide over the questions which were difficult for him to answer.
- 那个很假的人设法避开了那些他难回答的问题.
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- It's different, you're a phony, that's all.
- 那根本扯不到一块儿, 你完全是乱吹一气.
辞典例句
- More than that he seems disingenuous; in fact, his smile looks phony too.
- 更有甚者,他似乎并无诚意, 事实上, 他的笑容也显得虚伪.
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- Guido Stronson was a complete phony.
- 纪多?斯特朗森是个地地道道的骗子.
辞典例句
- Be yourself at all times. Neitherh you nor anyone else trusts a phony.
- 随时随地都应表现出真实的自己,没有人会相信骗子的.
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- This is a phony credit card.
- 这是一张伪造的信用卡.
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