- 1冒充者；假冒他人行騙的人
An impostor is a person who puts on someone else’s name, job, or story so that other people will trust them — and then uses that trust to trick them. It is not an actor on a stage, where everyone knows it is a play. An impostor wants the lie to work. You meet the word with fake doctors, fake officials, or someone who walks into a family and says they are a long-lost . The spelling impostor is the older, more careful one; imposter is also widely used. In everyday talk people often say a fake or a con man; impostor is a slightly more formal picture of “pretending to be a particular person.” Though actually, the trick is not always about one famous name. It can be a role: pretending to be a police officer, a relative, or an expert.
組成Borrowed from Middle French imposteur, later spelled in a Latin way; from Latin impositor, the “doer” form of imponere, “to impose.” An impostor imposes a false self on other people.
同家族的字
- imposeboth go back to Latin imponere, to place or put upon
- imposturethe act or practice of being an impostor
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impostornoun/ɪmˈpɒstə/
- 1
Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
- "It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."
- Then again these figures take no account of the thousands of beggars who travel free in India. Many of these are religious "Sadhus", dressed often in nothing but a loin-cloth, or even less, and their bodies smeared with ashes. A large number of these men are nothing but impostors, but the Hindu railway staff usually are afraid to interfere with them.
- 2
computer-graphicscomputingengineeringA sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.
- 3
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA term referenced in an unusual grammatical person.
- Interestingly, Wang shows that Chinese allows the appearance of an indexical pronoun alongside the imposter, as in (31).
- One possibility is that mothers of HR [higher-risk] infants frequently use non-pronoun forms in place of pronouns, as in the impostor uses noted above.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。