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false friend
英 [ˌfɔːls ˈfrend] 美 [ˌfɔːls ˈfrend]

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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N 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

I would rather be alone than have a false friend for company.

与其拥有虚情假意的朋友的陪伴，我宁愿独身一人。

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Better an open enemy than a false friend.

虚假的朋友比公开的敌人更坏。

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Better an open enemy than a false friend.

公开的敌人要比虚假朋友好。

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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.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
He himself was an atheist, he says, until he got into an argument with a friend and began reading the New Testament with a plan to prove it false.

ECONOMIST: The Church of England
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.

NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior

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