abstract:False friends are pairs of words or phrases in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning. An example is the English embarrassed and the Spanish embarazada, which does not in fact mean 'embarrassed' but rather 'pregnant'.
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a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda (另一语言中的)假同义词
Bangladesh is prosecuting Choudhury despite admission by various officials that the charges against him are false, according to Choudhury and his American advocate and friend, Dr. Richard Benkin, a former DePaul University professor of sociology and human rights advocate.
As it stood, he could only wince inwardly at this second, false personality, while making a good show of laughing along as Bill made a friend of all the young soldiers whom Hanwell himself had not yet managed to befriend.