| 词汇 | play-act |
| 释义 | play-act verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈpleɪ.ækt/ us /ˈpleɪ.ækt/ to hide your feelings from other people, or to entertain them, by deliberately behaving in a way that does not represent your true feelings: 假装;演戏 He knew she wasn't play-acting.他知道她不是在演戏。 Children sometimes play-act their idea of what an adult might do.孩子们有时会表演他们所认为的成人的做法。 See play-acting You don't have to play-act anymore. Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade. It was no good, she couldn't play-act indifference any longer. 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-acting professed purport quack Examples of play-actplay-act It forces the actors to regress to when they would play-act as kids or do minimalist theatre. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The agitation of recent weeks would then actually have been nothing but play-acting. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English One form this can take is neglecting real problems in order to go play-acting at the solution of imaginary ones or those totally outside the scope of local government power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are play-acting in this debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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