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词汇 play-act
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释义 play-act
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈpleɪ.ækt/ us /ˈpleɪ.ækt/
to hide your feelings from other people, or to entertain them, by deliberately behaving in a way that does not represent your true feelings: 假装;演戏
He knew she wasn't play-acting.他知道她不是在演戏。
Children sometimes play-act their idea of what an adult might 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-act anymore.
Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade.
It was no good, she couldn't play-act indifference any longer.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Faking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
bluff someone into something/doing something
changeling
cry
faker
false
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
out-bluff
pass something off as something
phoney
phony-baloney
play-acting
professed
purport
quack

Examples of play-act


play-act
It forces the actors to regress to when they would play-act as kids or do minimalist theatre.
From
Wikipedia

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The agitation of recent weeks would then actually have been nothing but play-acting.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
One form this can take is neglecting real problems in order to go play-acting at the solution of imaginary ones or those totally outside the scope of local government power.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We are play-acting in this debate.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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