feign [fen]
vt. 假装;装作;捏造;想象
vi. 假装;装作;作假;佯作
词源
feign 假装 来自PIE*dheigh, 揉捏,建造,词源同dough, fiction. 引申词义虚假,假装。
例句
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. He used to feign an excuse.
他惯于伪造口实.
英英解析:
For a more formal way to say pretend to or imitate, choose the verb feign. You might feign indifference when you hear about some gossip, but you're probably dying to know.
Feign comes from the Latin fingere, "to devise, fabricate." The word fiction comes from the same source, so if you feign something such as sleep, you give off the fiction that you are sleeping. This can be done to be polite but also to deceive such as when you feign an injury or the flu so you can stay home from school or work. You can also feign an accent, though some are better at this than others.(vocabulary dot com)