feigning

英 [ˈfeɪnɪŋ]

美 [ˈfeɪnɪŋ]

v.  假装，装作，佯装(有某种感觉或生病、疲倦等)
feign的现在分词

现在分词：feigning　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 装作;假装;冒充
  If someonefeignsa particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true.
  1. One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness...
     有天早晨我不想上学，于是决定装病。
  2. 'Giles phoned this morning,' Mirella said with feigned indifference.
     “贾尔斯今早来电话了，”米雷拉装作若无其事地说。

英英释义

noun

• the act of giving a false appearance
  1. his conformity was only pretending
  Synonym:pretensepretencepretendingsimulation
• pretending with intention to deceive
  Synonym:pretensepretencedissembling

双语例句

• There's actually one or two people down here that are feigning interest.
  有一个或者两个人在这儿，伪装得很有兴趣。
• He thumbed through a couple of pages, feigning just a slight interest
  他随手翻了几页，假装兴趣不大。
• Her expression and implication frightened Fang Hung-chien so much that he became wordless, and he blamed himself for having done too well at feigning anger.
  她的表情和含意吓得方鸿渐不敢开口，只懊悔自己气愤装得太像了。
• Attention-seeking Andrew Davies was given the anti-social behaviour order after he took to lying in the road and feigning injuries-all to dupe passing motorists into calling him an ambulance.
  英国男子安德鲁·戴维斯为了吸引公众注意，数次故意横躺在马路上，佯装受伤，希望路过的车辆驾驶员给他叫叫救护车。结果他被判处了反社会行为罪。
• She also cautioned against feigning mastery of a subject which you know little about.
  同时她还强调对于不是很了解的事情，不要假装精通。
• The criminal tried to grasp at a straw by feigning mental disorder.
  罪犯装疯，企图抓住一根救命稻草。
• Professional sport has become so full of ungentlemanly conduct, diving, feigning injury, harassing the officials that we as spectators have become numb to it.
  职业体育已经变得如此充满不君子行为，潜水，假装受伤，骚扰的官员说，我们作为观众，已成为麻木了。
• How many people and things in their fragile lives could bear feigning ignorance or strangeness?
  脆弱的人生又能有多少人和事经得起装蒜与矜持？
• [ b] We must point out that [/ b] feigning ignorance of the plight of poverty-stricken people is simply an irresponsible act on the part of ignorance.
  我们必须指出，假装不知道穷人的困境完全是出于无知的不负责任的表现。
• Hanging a Bag in mid-air/ holding the wind ( feigning madness)
  半天空里挂口袋，装风（疯）