英 [ʃəˈrɑːd] 美 [ʃəˈreɪd]
n. 装模作样，做戏；打哑谜猜字游戏
n. （Charade）（加、法、美）谢拉德（人名）
复数charades
charade /ʃəˈrɑːd/
可数名词 If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone. 假样子
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade.
我想知道为什么他做出了那么夸张的假样子。
不可数名词 Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase. 哑谜猜字游戏
We are all going to play charades in the library.
我们大家都将在图书馆玩哑谜猜字游戏。
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Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏—他们从未相爱过。
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade.
我想知道为什么他做出了那么夸张的假样子。
We tossed aside our best values, making them look like a hollow charade.
我们把我们的最佳价值扔到一边，使它们看起来像个无解的猜谜。
Boulkheir and Daddah joined opposition candidates Ely Ould Mohamed Vall and Hamadi Ould Meimou in denouncin what they called an "electoral charade, which is trying to legitimize" last August's coup.
VOA : standard.2009.07.19
So why does Mr. Khamenei, the paramount leader, even bother with the charade of popular elections?
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mojtaba Vahedi: Iran's Revolution From the Inside Out
Sam got another 2 years tagged on to the 20-year sentence for his charade.
That helped keep the charade going until news of Fastow's off-the-books paychecks emerged in 2001.