1. 虚构；虚幻
    If someone is living in a make-believe world, they are pretending that things are better, different, or more exciting than they really are instead of facing up to reality.

    e.g. ...the glamorous make-believe world of show business...
           娱乐界令人眼花缭乱的虚幻世界
    e.g. She squandered millions on a life of make-believe.
           她为一种虚幻的生活挥金如土。

2. （孩子们玩的）假装，假扮（游戏）
    You use make-believe to refer to the activity involved when a child plays a game in which they pretend something, for example that they are someone else.

    e.g. She used to play games of make-believe with her elder sister.
           她过去常跟姐姐玩扮家家的游戏。
    e.g. ...his make-believe playmate.
           他玩扮家家的伙伴

3. 虚假的;虚幻的;虚构的;假装的
    You use make-believe to describe things, for example in a play or film, that imitate or copy something real, but which are not what they appear to be.

    e.g. In the video, Michael Jackson danced down a make-believe street protesting that ''the kid is not my son''...
           录像里，迈克尔·杰克逊沿着虚设的街道一边跳舞一边抗议说：“那孩子不是我的儿子”。
    e.g. The violence in those films was too unreal, it was make-believe...
           那些影片里的暴力场面太不真实了，都是假的。

1. the enactment of a pretense

    e.g. it was just pretend

    Synonym: pretend

2. imaginative intellectual play

    Synonym: pretensepretence

1. imagined as in a play

    e.g. the make-believe world of theater
           play money
           dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish

    Synonym: pretend