fake

英 [feɪk] 美 [fek]

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解释

n. 假货；骗子；假动作
vt. 捏造；假装…的样子
vi. 假装；做假动作
adj. 伪造的
n. (Fake)人名；(英)费克

※ 提供单词"fake"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

fake 伪造的

犯罪分子俚语，词源不确定。可能来自词根fact, 做，词源同face, factitious. 即人为的，伪造的。

英文词源

fake: fake: [19] The use of fake for ‘produce a fraudulent copy of’ is a comparatively recent development. It used to mean ‘do up something spurious to make it seem genuine’, and in this sense seems to be a descendant of the longobsolete verb feague [16]. Essentially it is a piece of underworld slang, and as such has a rather slippery semantic history. In the 19th century it was used, like its ancestor feague, for any number of nefarious operations, including beating up and killing (‘to fake a man out and out, is to kill him’, J H Vaux, Vocabulary of the Flash Language 1812), but its current sense leads back in a straight line to its probable ultimate source, German fegen ‘polish, refurbish’.

This (like English fig ‘clothes, array’) was a derivative of the prehistoric Germanic base *feg-, a variant of *fag-, from which English gets fair ‘beautiful’.
=> fair, feast, fig
fake: of unknown origin; attested in London criminal slang as adjective (1775 "a counterfeit"), verb (1812 "to rob"), and noun (1851, "a swindle;" of persons 1888, "a swindler"), but probably older. A likely source is feague "to spruce up by artificial means," from German fegen "polish, sweep," also "to clear out, plunder" in colloquial use. "Much of our early thieves' slang is Ger. or Du., and dates from the Thirty Years' War" [Weekley]. Or it may be from Latin facere "to do." Century Dictionary notes that "thieves' slang is shifting and has no history."

The nautical word meaning "one of the windings of a cable or hawser in a coil" probably is unrelated, from Swedish veck "a fold." As a verb, "to feign, simulate" from 1941. To fake it is from 1915, jazz slang; to fake (someone) out is from 1940s, originally in sports. Related: Faked; fakes; faking. The jazz musician's fake book is attested from 1951.

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例句和用法

1. They said, after digging around, the photo was a fake.: 在搜集了有关情况后，他们说照片是伪造的。

2. A sharp-eyed shop assistant spotted the fake.: 一个眼尖的售货员发现了假货。

3. a fake American accent: 伪装的美国口音

4. I don't think some mug will buy his fake jewellery.: 我想没有哪个傻瓜会买他的假珠宝.

5. He looked like a postman but he was really a fake.: 他看上去像个邮递员,但实际上是个骗子.