belied

英 [bɪˈlaɪd]

美 [bɪˈlaɪd]

v.  掩饰; 遮掩; 使…给人以假象; 显示(某事)不正确; 证明(某事)错误
belie的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 掩饰；遮掩
  If one thingbeliesanother, it hides the true situation and so creates a false idea or image of someone or something.
  1. Her looks belie her 50 years.
     她看上去不像50岁。
• VERB 证明…是虚假的；显示…不真实
  If one thingbeliesanother, it proves that the other thing is not true or genuine.
  1. The facts of the situation belie his testimony.
     实际情况证明他作了伪证。

双语例句

• Just as often their subsequent actions, or lack of them, have belied these fine words.
  可每一次，他们随后拿出的行动（或缺乏行动）都证明其动听的言辞华而不实。
• He's belied to have been responsible for nearly two-dozen assassinations in the last eight years.
  在他最后的八年生涯中，几乎有二十四起暗杀事件与他关系甚密。
• His polite smile belied his real intentions.
  他的彬彬有礼的微笑掩饰了他真正的目的。
• His smile belied his disappointment.
  他的微笑掩藏他的失望。
• Yet the actual experience of patients frequently belied this assumption, for chronic pain often outlives its original causes, worsens over time and appears to take on a puzzling life of its own.
  然而，患者的实际经历往往与这种假设不符，因为慢性疼痛往往比它的起因持续的时间长，并随时间加重，其本身似乎呈现出令人费解的过程。
• A twinkle in his eye which belied the gravity of his demeanour.
  眼睛一眨，藉以掩盖他的严肃态度。
• Her cruelty belied her kind words.
  她的残忍与她的好话不一致。
• That the rise in the water was what she understood him to refer to, the state of her breathing belied.
  她嘴里说着水涨了的话，但是她明白他说的话里面的意思，因此她的呼吸把她的真情泄漏了。
• Ming court belied that its greatest challenges and opportunities were at home.
  明朝朝廷认识到最大的挑战和机遇是在国内。
• As any she belied with false compare.
  胜似任何被捧作天仙的美女。