play-act
verb[IorT]
uk/ˈpleɪ.ækt/us/ˈpleɪ.ækt/tohideyourfeelingsfrom otherpeople, or toentertainthem, bydeliberatelybehavingin a way that does notrepresentyourtruefeelings:
假装;演戏Heknewshe wasn'tplay-acting.他知道她不是在演戏。
Children sometimes play-acttheirideaof what anadultmight 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-actanymore.
- Dominic hadspentthe last twomonthsplay-actingandtonighthaddecidedtodropthefaçade.
- It was no good, she couldn't play-actindifferenceanylonger.
Faking & pretending
- affect
- air guitar
- assume
- believe
- changeling
- charlatan
- cry
- false
- false modesty
- falsifiable
- falsify
- feign
- massage
- mountebank
- out-bluff
- passsomethingoff assomething
- phoney
- professed
- purport
- quack