单词 | to act out |
释义 | > as lemmasto act out to act out 1. transitive. To perform, to translate into action; (Psychoanalysis) to express (repressed or unconscious feelings) in overt behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (transitive)] > other mental illness reject1931 to act out2002 ?1616 W. Goddard Satirycall Dialogue sig. E2 Oh hee that well cann actt-out such sweete partes. 1653 G. Goodman Two Great Myst. Christian Relig. 92 The truth of these promises, continued in many prophesies, acted out in Types, resembled in figures, [etc.]. 1673 E. Pearse Great Concern v. 55 Alas! How have we..acted out the enmity and rebellon [sic] of our natures against him? 1799 S. Hopkins Life & Char. Susanna Anthony v. 158 It will serve to strengthen and establish the faith of real christians to find one experiencing, expressing and acting out, in a higher and more eminent degree, those christian graces and exercises, which they have experienced in a lower measure. 1836 Amer. Q. Rev. 19 463 They pledged themselves with their pens, and then acted their pledges out. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 363 To speak out, to act out, what Nature has laid in him. 1934 A. Tate in New Republic 14 Mar. 128/1 The characters..suffer no dramatic alteration; an episode ends when they have acted out enough of the moral to please the poet. 1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xi. 192 He persuaded the boys to act out episodes from the Odyssey and the Aeneid. 1983 N. Humphrey Consciousness Regained vii. 75 Human ancestors were acting out the physiological states of fear or jealousy long before they were in a position to have insight into them. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 5 Sept. 151/2 You don't want to waste your time with some patronizing nimrod who's only interested in how you can help him act out his porno fantasies. 2. intransitive. Originally U.S. Esp. of a child or adolescent: to misbehave, to behave antisocially, esp. as a deliberate response to an unwelcome or distressing situation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > behave badly [verb (intransitive)] misbehave1703 misdemean1765 to go on1778 to cut up1787 perform1891 to act out1913 1913 Dial. Notes 4 3 Act out, to misbehave, of children in school, etc. Orono [Maine]. 1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens ii. 46 The child with a learning or physical problem or disability may act-out to divert attention from, for example, his inability to read. 1985 J. Adams Good Intentions v. 43 He's been acting out in very safe ways—lying to you, stealing from you, getting in dutch at school. 1999 New Yorker 29 Mar. 103/1 Betty was also a delusional sociopath who acted out at the trial..and hawked personal information about her daughter to the tabloids. < as lemmas |
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