feigning

1. VERB 装作;假装;冒充
   If someone feigns a 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。

1. He boasts of dodging military service by feigning illness
   他炫耀自己通过装病来逃避服兵役。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. Family and friends wonder now if she was feigning feeling better.
   家人和朋友现在揣测，她当时是不是假装感觉好些了？
5. 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。
6. Seventy-one percent of Chinese surveyed admitted to feigning sickness to miss a day on the clock.
   被调查的中国人中，有71%的人承认自己曾为了翘班而装病。
7. [ 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。
8. The woman continued to entice her, but moved imperceptibly away, still smiling and feigning generous love.
   这名妇女继续诱惑她，不知不觉地慢慢走开，脸上仍保持着微笑，装出一副博爱的样子。
9. Rudolf hess, who had been the number three man before his flight to england, his face now emaciated, his deep-set eyes staring vacantly into space, feigning amnesia but leaving no doubt that he was a broken man;
   鲁道夫赫斯在飞往英格兰以前曾经是第三号人物，如今面容憔悴，凹下去的眼睛失神地瞪着前方，他假装患了健忘症，但是一望而知是个垮了的人。
10. Hanging a Bag in mid-air/ holding the wind ( feigning madness)
    半天空里挂口袋，装风（疯）
11. The criminal tried to grasp at a straw by feigning mental disorder. The guy was hanging on to my leg like his life depending on it.
    有一个家伙紧紧抓住我的腿不放，好像找到了救命稻草一样。
12. 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？
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. If you have not committed your will to anything, something else owns you, other than that thing youre feigning any commitment toward.
    若没有投入意志，你就会被其它东西控制，除了那东西以外，你无法向别的事物委身。
18. Yet in most analyses, people with a healthy sense of self-respect are, for example, lumped with those feigning higher self-esteem than they really feel or who are narcissistic.
    举例来说，在多数的分析中，健康的自重类型会与佯装高度自尊或是自恋的人混在一起。
19. Al Gore theatrically wipes his brow, feigning exhaustion.
    阿尔戈尔（AlGore）夸张地擦去额头汗水，显出精疲力竭的样子。
20. Again the volleyball athlete who is lack of selective attention ability is confused by opposite party feigning movement, and creates in defensive the loophole thus lose the competition score points.
    如，排球运动员由于缺乏选择性注意能力被对方的假动作迷惑，造成防守上的漏洞而失去得分的机会。
21. 3-year-olds can deny having looking the toy, but it is not until age 6 that children could begin to own the competence of the feigning ignorance.
    3岁儿童能说谎，但假装无知的欺骗直到6岁才出现。
22. Feigning long-term memory and working memory impairment has different neural correlates, but we also found the overlapping brain regions.
    伪装长时记忆损害和伪装工作记忆损害存在不同的神经回路，但又有某些功能重叠。
23. Our results suggest that the left superior frontal gyrus may act as the basic neural mechanism for feigning memory impairment. 3.
    推测左额上回为伪装记忆损害的基本神经回路。
24. Conclusion: 1. Feigning long-term memory impairment mainly activated the left prefrontal cortex, including the left superior frontal gyrus and the medial prefrontal cortex; feigning working memory impairment possess a fronto-parietal-subcortical circuit. 2.
    结论1.伪装长时记忆损害主要激活左额前皮质，包括左额上回和左额内侧回；伪装工作记忆损害存在额-顶-皮质下回路。

noun

1. the act of giving a false appearance
   1. his conformity was only pretending

   Synonym:    pretensepretencepretendingsimulation

2. pretending with intention to deceive

   Synonym:    pretensepretencedissembling