| 单词 | feign |
| 释义 | feign (once / 739 pages) v For a more formal way to say pretend to or imitate, choose the verb feign. You might feign indifference when you hear about some gossip, but you're probably dying to know. Feign comes from the Latin fingere "to devise, fabricate." The word fiction comes from the same source, so if you feign something such as sleep, you give off the fiction that you are sleeping. This can done to be polite but also to deceive such as when you feign an injury or the flu so you can stay home from school or work. You can also feign an accent, though some are better at this than others. WORD FAMILYfeign: feigned, feigning, feigns+/feigned: feignedly, unfeigned/feigning: feignings/unfeigned: unfeignedly USAGE EXAMPLESLyster feigns ignorance of other cultural reference points, too, varying the reference point to generate maximum confusion in her target. Slate(Dec 22, 2016) I feigned a headache and am now “working from home.” Slate(Dec 20, 2016) I weighed the option of just feigning ignorance, but being detained, or worse, jailed in Congo, is a horrible prospect. Washington Post(Nov 21, 2016) 1v make believe with the intent to deceive He feigned that he was ill Syn|Hypo|Hyper affect, dissemble, pretend, sham make, make believe, pretend represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like play possum to pretend to be dead take a divepretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer bull, bullshit, fake, talk through one's hatspeak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths moutharticulate silently; form words with the lips only lip-sync, lip-synchmove the lips in synchronization (with recorded speech or song) belie, misrepresent represent falsely 2v make a pretence of he feigned sleep Syn|Hypo|Hyper assume, sham, simulate play pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity feintdeceive by a mock action act, dissemble, pretend behave unnaturally or affectedly |
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