play make-believe
Children often play make-believe with their toys.
孩子们经常用玩具玩假装游戏。
假想游戏；想象游戏；富有想象力的智力游戏；伪装
the act of pretending that imaginary things are real
假装,虚构
the enactment of a pretense
富有想象力的智力游戏
imaginative intellectual play
The children's game of make-believe turned the backyard into a magical kingdom.
孩子们的游戏假装把后院变成了一个魔法王国。
用法提示：make-believe 作名词，表示‘假装’或‘幻想’，这里指儿童的游戏性假想。
She lived in a world of make-believe, refusing to face reality.
她生活在一个幻想的世界里，拒绝面对现实。
用法提示：make-believe 作名词，指虚构的、不真实的世界或状态。
His story was pure make-believe, not a single fact in it.
他的故事纯粹是编造的，其中没有一丁点事实。
用法提示：make-believe 作名词，意为‘虚构的事’或‘假话’。
Children often play make-believe with their toys.
孩子们经常用玩具玩假装游戏。
The novel draws readers into a world of make-believe.
这部小说将读者带入一个虚构的世界。
表示参与假装活动，常用于表演或游戏语境。
Actors engage in make-believe to portray characters convincingly.
演员通过假装来令人信服地塑造角色。
grammar · medium
易错句子He make-believes he is a doctor.
正确表达He pretends he is a doctor.
“make-believe”是名词或形容词，不能用作动词。表示“假装”应用动词“pretend”。
grammar · medium
易错句子He lives in a world of make believe.
正确表达He lives in a world of make-believe.
作为复合名词，“make-believe”必须保留连字符，写成两个词是错误的。
pretend是动词，表示做出假装的行动；make-believe是名词/形容词，指假装本身或假装的。学习者常误用pretend作名词。
pretense与make-believe同义，但pretense更强调虚假外表或借口，make-believe则多指游戏性假装。
fantasy指完全脱离现实的想象，而make-believe通常基于现实情境的假装。
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