make-be·lieve /ˈmekbəˌliv/
假裝,偽裝,假裝的人(a.)假裝的
make-be·lieve n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. “Childlike make-believe.”
To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M. Arnold.
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Make-be·lieve, a.
1. Feigned; insincere. “Make-believe reverence.”
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make-believe
adj : imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater";
"play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to
catch pretend fish" [syn: pretend]
n 1: imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence]
2: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn: pretend]