charade /ʃəˈrɑːd/ star1 (charades)

• 1.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone. 假样子[表不满]

  例：

  I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade.

  我想知道为什么他做出了那么夸张的假样子。

• 2.  

  N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase. 哑谜猜字游戏

  例：

  We are all going to play charades in the library.

  我们大家都将在图书馆玩哑谜猜字游戏。