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单词 feign
释义
feign
verb[T]
uk
/feɪn/us
/feɪn/
topretendto have aparticularfeeling,problem, etc. :
假装（某种感情），装作
Youknowhow everyone feignssurprisewhen youtellthem howoldyou are.你知道当你告诉别人你的年龄时，他们如何故作惊讶。
Theprosecutionclaimedthat thedefendanthad feigned theinjury.原告代理律师称被告的伤是伪装的。
Sherespondedto hisremarkswith feignedamusement.她对他的话假装感兴趣。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
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 somethingUKThe 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.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Faking & pretending
  • affect
  • air guitar
  • assume
  • believe
  • changeling
  • charlatan
  • cry
  • false
  • false modesty
  • falsifiable
  • falsify
  • fraud
  • mountebank
  • out-bluff
  • passsomethingoff assomething
  • phoney
  • play-act
  • professed
  • purport
  • quack
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(Definition offeignfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

feign| American Dictionary

feign
verb[T]
us
/feɪn/
topretendto have afeelingorcondition:
He feignedsicknessso he wouldn’t have to go toschool.
(Definition offeignfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If they anticipate their actual signing to be quick, they can quicklyfeignsigning as well.
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Sales authorities were highly conscious that customers' suspicions about feigned sincerity by sales agents could undermine the larger goal of promoting consumption.
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On the former day theyfeignhumanity and gentleness, in the hope of capturing the voice of the people.
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Thus, feigning understanding can be seen as a zero-negotiation mechanism.
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The possible contribution of feigning to the pattern of aberrant brain activation also needs to be explored.
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A final limitation in the methodology is the fact that there were two experimenters who feigned distress.
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For instance, they canfeignnot to understand their children's mixes.
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Reply to me by return of post, and do notfeignignorance.
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The convention of suffixes constructed to designate higher degrees of oxygenation is no more helpful; here, no rhetorically realist evocation is even feigned.
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Dancers are undoubtedly amongst the fittest and liveliest of their generation, and they are certainly not feigning their agility on the dance floor.
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It is difficult to determine whether such reasoning was genuine or feigned.
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It would be disingenuous tofeignignorance of why we are being treated to extra large helpings of gloom and despondency.
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So she resolves out of fear for her life tofeignreconciliation and consent, and she thinks that her self-preservation depends on her being as convincing as possible.
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Cake, but no singing, in the menfolk's absence (and presumed or feigned ignorance) was a reasoned and negotiated compromise.
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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.
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