| 词汇 | feign |
| 释义 | feign verb[ T ] uk /feɪn/ us /feɪn/ to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc. : 假装（某种感情），装作 You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.你知道当你告诉别人你的年龄时，他们如何故作惊讶。 The prosecution claimed that the defendant had feigned the injury.原告代理律师称被告的伤是伪装的。 She responded to his remarks with feigned amusement.她对他的话假装感兴趣。 to act as if something is true when it is not pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise. make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce. play at somethingUK The children are playing at cops and robbers. role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping. fakeShe's only faking being ill. feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance. Faking & pretending affect air guitar assume believe bluff someone into something/doing something changeling cry faker false false modesty falsifiable falsify pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act play-acting professed purport quack feign | American Dictionaryfeign verb[ T ] us/feɪn/ to pretend to have a feeling or condition: He feigned sickness so he wouldn’t have to go to school. Examples of feignfeign If they anticipate their actual signing to be quick, they can quickly feign signing as well. Sales authorities were highly conscious that customers' suspicions about feigned sincerity by sales agents could undermine the larger goal of promoting consumption. On the former day they feign humanity and gentleness, in the hope of capturing the voice of the people. Thus, feigning understanding can be seen as a zero-negotiation mechanism. The possible contribution of feigning to the pattern of aberrant brain activation also needs to be explored. A final limitation in the methodology is the fact that there were two experimenters who feigned distress. For instance, they can feign not to understand their children's mixes. Reply to me by return of post, and do not feign ignorance. The convention of suffixes constructed to designate higher degrees of oxygenation is no more helpful; here, no rhetorically realist evocation is even feigned. Dancers are undoubtedly amongst the fittest and liveliest of their generation, and they are certainly not feigning their agility on the dance floor. It is difficult to determine whether such reasoning was genuine or feigned. It would be disingenuous to feign ignorance of why we are being treated to extra large helpings of gloom and despondency. So she resolves out of fear for her life to feign reconciliation and consent, and she thinks that her self-preservation depends on her being as convincing as possible. Cake, but no singing, in the menfolk's absence (and presumed or feigned ignorance) was a reasoned and negotiated compromise. It is, moreover, somewhat strange to talk about essential or fixed identities in a performing musician, who after all is an artist concerned with feigning a changing configuration of identities. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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