单词
feign
英 [fe?n]
美[fen]
基本信息
- vt. 假装；装作；捏造；想象
- vi. 假装；装作；作假；佯作
TEM8GRE低频词常用词汇
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;
助记提示
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.
2. feindre "pretend, imitate, feign" => feign.
3. => pretend, imitate, feign.
中文词源
feign 假装
来自PIE*dheigh, 揉捏，建造，词源同dough, fiction. 引申词义虚假，假装。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Feign suggests false representation or fictitious fabrication.
- feign指错误的表现或人为的制造.
来自互联网
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. They refuse marriage and even feign poverty!
- 婚不肯结,还要装穷!
来自汉英文学 - 围城
- 5. He used to feign an excuse.
- 他惯于伪造口实.
来自辞典例句