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单词 play-act
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Definition of play-act in English:

play-act

verb
[no object]
  • 1Act in a play.

    演戏

    we've made a craft of play-acting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mrs Ritchie, not so much expressing herself, but play-acting.
    • And when they make love near the beginning of the movie, they are play-acting.
    • But whatever you do, don't play-act like you're an air-headed, not-so-cerebral, mush-for-brains girl.
    • My kid's only 5, so it's a bit different for him, but he goes to regular sessions where he basically learns to play-act through a lot of imaginative and social situations.
    • Bennie and Walter play-act in a repetitive chant, as Ruth embarrassingly answers the door to let in George Murchison.
    • But I was only play-acting to avoid embarrassment.
    • Did you think ‘my God, I and everyone else in this room are play-acting and in doing so are betraying our profession and holding the public in total contempt’?
    • On top of this the Italians are genuinely entertaining: they cook pasta, sing, dance, argue passionately, flirt relentlessly and fall on the floor play-acting.
    • Benson had said he believed the children had been play-acting for the camera.
    • Dodgson made a game of the sessions, so the girls may be play-acting; but the lens confers an inescapable awareness of separateness, bound up with seeing and being seen.
    • What will follow is rather odd: I'll find myself spontaneously kind of play-acting, having a sort of two-way exchange where I'll say something and then respond to myself as that being.
    • That's what I wear when I'm play-acting as a magician, or I get into a suit when I have to make a deal I don't want to - like going to court.
    • More concretely, it became a film about the ability of women ‘to play-act, to fake.’
    • Don't play-act being more tired than you are, or be mentally weak enough to give in before you have to, and then training and playing rugby is so simple.
    • She spends money loose and fast, but she also knows how to play-act.
    • The idea is that a player would not play-act because he would reduce his team to ten men while he is off the field waiting to be waved back on.
    • Was he simply play-acting, trying to keep expectations low so he would be underestimated?
    • He wore a bullet-proof vest and play-acted into a walkie-talkie saying ‘Roger’ and ‘Over’ to convince locals he was a genuine police officer.
    • You've lived some stuff I've only play-acted.
    • There has never been a true bond between the two, beyond that of two children, play-acting.
    1. 1.1with object Act (a scene, role, etc.)
      演出(一场戏),扮演(角色)
      they were play-acting a western duel
      Example sentencesExamples
      • With the next student, Bobby started play-acting devil's advocate, firing questions and posing hypothetical situations to him.
      • Girls are much more likely to play house, or to play-act their favorite stories or movies.
      • He also appears to be a racist, which is the first tip-off that he's play-acting the grudge and must be up to something more meaningful in his plottings around camp.
      • He's the rich kid play-acting war, the symbol and not the substance of the soldier.
      • In ID4, Smith's partner (Harry Connick, Jr.) play-acts a marriage proposal to him in a locker room.
      • It is one thing to play-act the gender role of frightened female in a movie theater where the horror is only simulated, but do I want to perform that same gender construction in real life?
      • With the whole schoolgirl thing, the ‘doing-something-I-shouldn't be-doing’ aspect is what adds the charge, and at School Disco, people, men at least, can play-act this.
      • One unfortunately tends to forget that Andie is play-acting dumb.
      • Early in their lives, they often spend entire afternoons play-acting imaginary scenarios.
      • Psychodrama is play-acting events during therapy and may include elements of enactment, role play, or make believe.
      • The two women, Ruth and Anna, have play-acted these characters over the years as a way of relieving tensions.
      • Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence against Zidler - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
      • Once it is done you can force them to play-act The Next Generation with you.
      • Yve, kindly lady that she is, came to rescue me - but all for naught, as she was swept up into the lively gavotte before she could play-act knight in shining armor.
      • Someone would always be practising the harpsichord or the violin and there was much reading aloud, dressing-up and play-acting.
      • Yet, at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit just last week, it was difficult to imagine that this talented couple was only play-acting the romantic ambience that they were creating up there on the Bangkok stage.
      • They will see the world differently and may not be so eager to play-act violence.
      • Like Madhur Jaffrey, some of them play-act Hindu stories or rituals, and young girls in particular may have real roles to perform as handmaidens of the Goddess in ceremonies associated with her worship.
      • Here are two parties play-acting a phoney war - and wondering why voters yawn.
      Synonyms
      pretend, sham, fake, feign, put it on, bluff, pose, posture, masquerade, dissemble, dissimulate
    2. 1.2usually as noun play-acting Engage in histrionic pretence.
      装腔作势的表演
      the defender indulged in some play-acting after tumbling to the ground

      被告绊倒在地后着实表演了一番。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me.
      • Celtic cannot hold a candle to their UEFA Cup semi-final opponents when it comes to the ‘by any means necessary’ approach that makes virtues of biting, scratching and play-acting.
      • Again I suggest using play-acting because it helps them get into the situation and think things through.
      • Movies are magic because they conjure powerful emotions from light, forms, sound, and play-acting.
      • Curtains around the lower bunk provide fodder for endless hours of peekaboo, play-acting, and fort-building.
      • The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
      • Otherwise it's pretending, play-acting, not really living.
      • Not that anything's wrong with recreation that involves a little dress-up or play-acting, being a bit more like you want to be instead of (let's face it) who you know you are.
      • But something else, something quite profound, also arises out of this musical-chair play-acting: the sense that bodies are receptacles for all manner of life forces to pass through.
      • Also had a couple of storming, skilful bursts up the park, although his penchant for play-acting rankled throughout and eventually earned him a booking.
      • They love, I suspect, exactly those things that make him problematic: his passion for play-acting, for drama over truth.
      • It was play-acting, pure and simple, Borthwick declared.
      • Mentalizing is pervasive in everyday life, in communication and co-operation, in pedagogy, in play-acting, but also in deceiving, cheating, and outwitting.
      Synonyms
      pretend, put it on, fake, sham, bluff, pose, posture, masquerade, make believe, act, go through the motions, put on a false display

Derivatives

  • play-actor

  • noun
    • Clearly happy to live in some pantomime version of the distant Celtic past, these shabby play-actors only serve to give the concrete jungle a good name.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Beyond this, we now find Prime Ministers who are unconscious play-actors, living out tragicomic careers as if for all the world they were indeed the authentic rulers of our time.
      • The diving play-actors, on whom referees have been instructed to clamp down, will draw scant consolation from that as they take an early bath.
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