| 词汇 | feigning |
| 释义 | feigning present participle offeign 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 out-bluff pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act professed purport quackery Examples of feigningfeigning In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. 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, 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. The patient may respond to such open-ended questions with an explicit "tell me everything/nothing" or with nonverbal cues such as closing her eyes and feigning fatigue or sleep. It is a chilling catalogue of evasion, deceit and feigning co-operation while in reality pursuing concealment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is this real naivety or are you just feigning naivety, in an attempt, as it were, to actively deny reality? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This would encompass feigning poverty in order to obtain money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was feigning his response to the statement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The new charges are of feigning infirmity and of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Main opposition parties serve no practical purpose by feigning unity in the vain pursuit of political point scoring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The third escaped by feigning death. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The captive, however, after feigning resignation, was less tightly held. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yet also exploring the involuntary aspects of being ignorant, such as feigning ignorance of the past or avoiding the truth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Both sides continued on, feigning normality while both were aware of the others mistrust. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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