impostor

英 [ɪmˈpɒstə(r)]

美 [ɪmˈpɑːstər]

n.  冒名顶替者; 冒名行骗者

复数：impostors　

GRETEM8

BNC.34697 / COCA.21752

牛津词典

noun

• 冒名顶替者；冒名行骗者
  a person who pretends to be sb else in order to trick people

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 假冒者;冒名顶替者
  Someone who is animpostoris dishonestly pretending to be someone else in order to gain an advantage.
  1. He was an imposter, who masqueraded as a doctor.
     他是个冒牌医生。

英英释义

noun

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses
  Synonym:imposterpretenderfakefakerfraudshamshammerpseudopseudrole player

双语例句

• She plays the impostor in that new adventure film.
  在那部新的冒险片中，她扮演一个江湖骗子。
• The impostor was exposed publicly and thus stripped of his borrowed plumes.
  这骗子被当众揭发，伪装被撕下了。
• The impostor sit down quietly.
  骗子安定的坐下来。
• We knew he was an impostor because he spoke with a foreign accent.
  我们知道他是个骗子因为他说话带外国口音。
• He said he was a doctor, but it subsequently emerged that he was an impostor.
  他说他是位医生，但后来却发现他是个骗子。
• Thank the gods this impostor had finally been exposed!
  感谢上帝，终于让这个欺世盗名之徒现出原形了！
• I am an impostor. And the night before my first-year talk, and the first-year talk at Princeton is a 20-minute talk to 20 people. That's it.
  我当时觉得，我不应该在这里，我是个骗子，在我第一年演讲的那个晚上，普林斯顿第一年的演讲，大约是对20个人做20分钟的演讲。
• Every entrepreneur feels like an impostor at one time or another.
  每一位创业者总会在某个时刻感觉自己是骗子。
• Suppose she's not working for your impostor.
  她可能不是给冒充者干的。
• This is not Doctor Malcolm, he is an impostor.
  这不是马尔科姆医生，他是骗子。