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To feign a feeling or a state is to put it on: you are not really angry, ill, or asleep, but you act as if you are. “He feigned surprise” means the surprise was an act. It is a little more formal than pretend or fake; you meet it in books and in the news more than in the playground. People feign illness to skip school, or feign sleep so nobody asks them a question. The word is about the show — a feeling or a condition you wear for a moment — not about a small lie of fact like a wrong number.
假裝、佯裝（常搭配裝病、裝睡）
原始詞典資料3 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。
feignverb/feɪn/
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To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
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To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
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To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
- Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
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。