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To malinger is to avoid work by pretending to be ill. The person is not really sick, or not as sick as they say; they put on illness so they can stay in bed, skip a job, or get out of a duty. It is a critical word — you use it when you believe the illness is an act. Doctors, bosses, teachers, and the army have all used it. It is not a children’s word, and it is a little old-fashioned in daily talk, but it is still clear. Though actually, the middle of the word looks like (to stay too long), and that is a trap: malinger does not mean , and it was not built from . It comes from French malingre, “delicate, fragile.”
裝病（逃避工作）
組成From French malingrer, from the adjective malingre, “delicate, fragile.” Not mal- + linger.
同家族的字
- malingererthe person who malingers
- malingeringthe act of pretending to be ill to avoid work
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。
Malingername
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A surname.
malingerverb/məˈlɪŋɡə/
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To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
- It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
- And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
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To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
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。