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To dissemble is to hide what you really feel or think, and show a different face. You smile while you are angry. You say “it’s fine” when it is not. The word is old and rather . You will meet it in novels, history, and careful writing more than in chat. Everyday English is more likely to say hide your feelings, pretend, or cover up. It is about the inside and the outside not matching. It is not acting on a stage, and it is not taking a machine apart.
掩飾（真心）、隱瞞真實想法。
組成Into English in the 1400s, from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dissimulō (to hide or pretend), then reshaped to look more like French sembler / semblance (“to seem,” “outward look”). Twin of dissimulate.
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- dissimulatea doublet from the same Latin verb; also “hide your true mind,” in a more Latin-looking shape
- semblancethe French family this verb was reshaped to look like; a semblance is an outward appearance
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dissembleverb/dɪˈsɛmbəl/
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To disguise or conceal something.
- Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
- Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in ſundry places to acknowledge, and confeſs our manifold ſins and wickedneſs, and that we ſhould not diſſemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father, […]
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To feign, dissimulate.
- And like a Lyon, Slumbring in the vvay, / Or Sleep-diſſembling, vvhile he vvaits his Prey, […]
- He soon dissembled a sleep.
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To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
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To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
- VVhile to his Arms the bluſhing Bride he took; / To ſeeming Sadneſs ſhe compoſ'd her Look; / As if by Force ſubjected to his VVill, / Tho' pleaſ'd, diſſembling, and a VVoman ſtill.
- […] She transferr'd the curs'd Advice, / That Monarchs ſhould their inward Soul diſguise, / Diſſemble, and command; be falſe, and wiſe; / By ignominous Arts for ſervile Ends / Should compliment their Foes, and ſhun their Friends.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。