- 1裝模作樣；做戲
To play-act is to put on a show of feeling — to look serious, hurt, brave, or sincere — when that is not the real feeling. A child may play-act being ill to stay home. An adult may play-act shock in a meeting. The picture comes from the stage: you play, and you act, as in a play. In real life the word is a little . It says the person is performing. You will hear it most as a verb (“Stop play-acting”). The behaviour itself can also be called play-acting. It is not the same as acting in a school play, where everyone knows it is a story. Play-acting in this sense is pretending in life, and hoping other people will believe the feeling.
組成A compound of play + act: like acting in a play, but used of real life.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
play-actverb
- 1
To perform on stage; to act in a play.
- 2
To play (a scene, role etc.); to act out.
- Kelly’s involvement made it a song not only about fame, but also about alleged sex across creepy power differentials. This wasn’t really even subtext: Gaga and Kelly playacted an Oval Office affair at the American Music Awards.
- 3
To engage in pretence or insincere behavior, often in order to mislead someone or gain an advantage.
- The most Trump can imagine selling is himself, and what that self is is merely a hologram, a weightless shape. He play-acts at being a businessman. He play-acts at being a president. The only thing that’s authentic about him is his comic-book worldview, one divided between heroes and villains, us and them.
- Abby, watching Harper give the closeted performance that she’s been giving her whole life, sees a side of her that she doesn’t like — the one who play-acts and denies herself almost too well.
- 4
To make a pretence of; to feign or simulate.
- If the devil’s advocate playacts disagreement with you for the sake of strengthening your argument, the concern troll is his mirror image, a person who pretends to agree with you in order to undermine you.
- Asked after the match if Djokovic had been play-acting the symptoms of cramp, Murray replied “I don't know. I would hope that that wouldn't be the case. But, yeah, if it was cramp, that's a tough thing to recover from and play as well as he did at the end.”
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