| 词汇 | play-acting |
| 释义 | play-acting noun[ U ] uk /ˈpleɪ.æk.tɪŋ/ us /ˈpleɪ.æk.t̬ɪŋ/ an attempt 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 Don't take any notice of him - it's just play-acting.不要管他——他是在装腔作势。 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 quack Related wordplay-act Examples of play-actingplay-acting In this play-acting scenario, both parties exaggerate and flatten each other into caricatures in the course of an irritable and peevish exchange. They developed shared meanings of particular actions and interpreted them in the context of play-acting. The jarring term ' play-acting ' just used deserves a bit of exegesis. He knows that she knows they are both play-acting, but that such posturing and presentation are a necessary part of politics. This is no more than well-organised political play-acting between left and right. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It would be difficult to stage a less attractive piece of pre-arranged official play-acting than that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This kind of play-acting is not adding to the quality of the debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should have no truck with pretence and play-acting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question of play-acting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, it was all play-acting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is largely a bit of play-acting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The agitation of recent weeks would then actually have been nothing but play-acting. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There certainly is not any play-acting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。