【belie】 - A-level备考词汇

belie

UK:  [bɪ'laɪ]

US:  [bɪ'laɪ]

过去分词：belied  现在分词：belying  第三人称单数：belies  

v.

1.掩饰;打消

2.歪曲…的真相,伪装,使人误解

3.证明…是假的;与…相背[相反、相左]

4.辜负(希望等),违背(约言等)

5.〔美国〕责备…虚假

6.给人一个假象

7.表明…并非真的

8.与...不符合

1 . The scales along his back seem to be blackish, and so much as is discovered under his belie, appeared to be red. . .
沿着他的背部鳞片似乎是黑色的，和这么多的是他的掩饰下，显现是红色的发现…

2 . There were no miso soup lines and the relatively low official unemployment rate often seemed to belie that there was a problem at all.
购买廉价酱汤的长队并没有出现。而且，相对较低的官方失业率经常给人一种根本没有问题存在的假象。

3 . No wonder that Israeli politics tends to belie what professors have written about the cohesiveness of cabinet government.
以色列的政治表明，大学教授们关于内阁政府是如何团结一致的说法常常与事实相左，这毫不足怪。

4 . Then they became friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy way with which fierce beasts belie their fierceness .
后来他们就友好起来，并一起游戏，态度羞怯忸怩，跟猛兽的凶恶本性完全不同。

5 . The briefings, which take place about once a week, belie the agency's gritty image.
情报局基本一周一次的情况通报会背离了它的强硬形象。