Feign
[feɪn] or [fen]
解释:
(verb.) make believe with the intent to deceive; 'He feigned that he was ill'; 'He shammed a headache'.
安德鲁手打--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
(v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
(v. t.) To dissemble; to conceal.
布鲁克整理
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Invent, imagine, devise, fabricate, forge.[2]. Counterfeit, dissemble, affect, pretend to, make a show of.
整理:米切尔
同义词及反义词：
[See PRETEND]
校对:谢尔曼
解释:
v.t. to invent: to imagine: to make a show or pretence of to counterfeit simulate.—adj. Feigned pretended: simulating.—adv. Feign′edly.—ns. Feign′edness; Feign′ing.
录入:里基
例句:
- Here, therefore, we feign a new act of the mind, which we call the willing an obligation; and on this we suppose the morality to depend. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She cannot feign; she scorns hypocrisy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I'm here on business--just got here, Archer explained; and, without knowing why, he suddenly began to feign astonishment at seeing her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- He's only feigning to be asleep now,' said the captain, in a high passion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Mrs. Weston was acting no part, feigning no feelings in all that she said to him in favour of the event. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- In the art of feigning he is a worthy disciple of Plato. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- We all drew nearer to the cages, feigning to examine the birds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- They were envied when they went away by people left behind, feigning not to want to go: and that again was the Marshalsea habit invariably. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Feigning to be intent on her embroidery, she sat plying her needle until her busy hand was stopped by Mrs Boffin's hand being lightly laid upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- As Louisa feigned to rouse herself, and sat up, Sissy retired, so that she stood placidly near the bedside. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- The sleeper moving an arm, he sat down again in his chair, and feigned to watch the storm from the window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Hers was neither forced nor feigned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- This time, Mr. Lorry feigned to go out when he could extract no answer from him, and, after remaining absent for an hour, returned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- For her sake, I wished to conceal it--for her sake, still, I tell this story under feigned names. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mine would have been feigned stoicismforced fortitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Had he feigned a regard for her which he did not feel? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- If one feigns death lions and lionesses are supposed to ignore one, according to Mr. Philander's faulty memory. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Twemlow, in a stunned condition, feigns to compare the portrait in his hand with the original looking towards him from his Mephistophelean corner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
编辑:奥尔加