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mare's-nest

/mairz-nest/US // ˈmɛərzˌnɛst //

马蜂窝,燕窝,燕子窝,母猪窝

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
    • : an extremely confused, entangled, or disordered place, situation, etc.: We just moved in, and the place is a mare's-nest.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indeception
Synonyms
cover-up遮掩,掩饰,遮盖物,遮盖fraud欺诈,诈骗,欺诈行为,欺骗hoax骗局,诈骗,哄骗,糗事illusion幻象,幻想,幻觉,幻影lie谎言,撒谎,骗人,谎话ruse诡计,伎俩,诡计多端,骗局scam骗局,诈骗,骗术,骗人subterfuge潜规则,隐蔽性,伪装,掩饰trick诀窍,窍门,骗局,诡计artifice构造,构造物,构造性,构造的bluff虚张声势,诈骗,忽悠catch接住,抓住,捕捉,捕获cheat诈骗,骗人,欺骗,骗人的chicane驰道,岔路口,岔道,岔道口con骗局,骗人,骗术,骗人的crock罐子,罐头,炖锅,炖菜decoy诱饵,诱骗,诱使,引诱device设备,装置dodge躲避,躲闪,躲躲闪闪,躲开fallacy谬误,谬论,误区,谬种feint假动作,佯攻,佯装,佯谬fib纤维,纤维的gimmick噱头,噱頭,技巧,绰号hogwash胡说八道,胡言乱语,胡扯八道hustle喧嚣,喧闹,喧哗,喧闹声imposture骗局,冒牌货,骗人,骗子jive跳舞,跳跃,欢呼声,跳动malarkey马拉基,麦拉基,马拉其,马勒戈壁pretext幌子,托词,借口,托辞ride乘坐,骑车,骑马,驾sham虚伪,骗局,骗人的,虚假的shift移位,转移,移,轮班shuck剥皮,剥壳,剥落,剥去snare陷阱,诱饵,诱捕,弶港stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开sting蜇伤,刺痛,蜇人,蜇伏story故事,报道,新闻报道,新闻stratagem伎俩,谋略,计策,计谋swindle诈骗,诓骗,拐骗,骗人trap陷阱,陷害,疏水阀,陷害他人whitewash粉饰,粉刷,刷新,擦亮wile踌躇满志,诡计,狡猾,狡猾的wrinkle褶皱,皱纹,防皱,折皱bilk胆小鬼con game骗局游戏,骗局,骗人游戏,骗子游戏confidence game信心游戏,自信游戏,自信的游戏,信心的游戏fast one快速的一个,快的一个,快速的,快速的一fast shuffle快速洗牌,快速洗牌法,快速洗盘,快速洗练snow job雪地作业,雪地工作,雪上作业,雪工

Examples

  • “A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.

  • “Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.

  • In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.

  • “The thing [North Korean government] want[s] the most is the non-release of this film,” Schiff said.

  • A third cabinet member used public funds to pay in an S & M bar.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.

  • The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

  • Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.

  • Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.