make-believe TEM8

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  N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） If someone is living in a make-believe world, they are pretending that things are better, different, or more exciting than they really are instead of facing up to reality. 虚幻的[表不满]

  例：

  ...the glamorous make-believe world of show business.

  …娱乐圈令人眼花缭乱的虚幻世界。

• 2.  

  N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） You use make-believe to refer to the activity involved when a child plays a game in which they pretend something, for example that they are someone else. 过家家

  例：

  She used to play games of make-believe with her elder sister.

  她以前和姐姐玩过家家游戏。

• 3.  

  ADJ（形容词） You use make-believe to describe things, for example in a play or film, that imitate or copy something real, but which are not what they appear to be. 仿真的; 假的

  例：

  The violence in those films was too unreal, it was make-believe.

  那些电影里的暴力太不真实了，是假的。