feign是什么意思_feign怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

feign: feign: [13] Feign is first cousin to faint. It comes from the present stem of Old French faindre or feindre ‘pretend, shirk’, whose past participle gave English faint. This in turn came from Latin fingere ‘make, shape’, which also gave English effigy, fiction, figure, and figment and is related to English dairy and dough. The semantic progression from ‘make, shape’ to ‘reform or change fraudulently’, and hence ‘pretend’, had already begun in classical Latin times.
=> dairy, dough, effigy, faint, fiction, figure
feign (v.): A 17c. respelling of fain, fein, from Middle English feinen, feynen "disguise or conceal (deceit, falsehood, one"s real meaning); dissemble, make false pretenses, lie; pretend to be" (c. 1300), from Old French feindre "hesitate, falter; be indolent; lack courage; show weakness," also transitive, "to shape, fashion; depict, represent; feign, pretend; imitate" (12c.), from Latin fingere "to touch, handle; devise; fabricate, alter, change" (see fiction).

From late 14c. as "simulate (an action, an emotion, etc.)." Related: Feigned; feigning. The older spelling is that of faint, feint, but this word acquired a -g- in imitation of the French present participle stem feign- and the Latin verb.

词态变化

第三人称单数 feigns;
过去式 feigned;
过去分词 feigned;
现在分词 feigning;

权威造句

1. She knew that her efforts to feign cheerfulness weren"t convincing.: 她明白自己强作欢颜是瞒不了谁的.

2. Feign suggests false representation or fictitious fabrication.: feign指错误的表现或人为的制造.

3. 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。

4. They refuse marriage and even feign poverty!: 婚不肯结,还要装穷!

5. He used to feign an excuse.: 他惯于伪造口实.

近反义词

assume 假定

pretend 假装

fake 假的

affect 影响

simulate 假装

sham 假

play 玩

act 行为

put on 穿上

make believe 好玩或古怪的装扮...

invent 发明

bluff 虚张声势

dissemble 掩饰

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记忆方法

1. fingere (form root fig-) => Old French variant form feindre (pp. feint) "pretend, imitate, feign".
2. feindre "pretend, imitate, feign" => feign.
3. => pretend, imitate, feign.

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