Her efforts to feign cheerfulness weren't convincing. 她的强颜欢笑并不使人信服。
Feign authorship of a novel. 冒充小说的著作人
She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger; he feigned sleep. 她很愤怒,但是装作不关心;他装作睡觉。
feigned
[ adj ] not genuine <adj.all> feigned sympathy
Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feigned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feigning}.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See {Dough}, and cf. {Figure}, {Faint}, {Effigy}, {Fiction}.] 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh. vi. 8.
The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak.
2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak.
3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Feigned \Feigned\, a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. ``A feigned friend.'' --Shak.
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. --Ps. xvii. 1. -- {Feign"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Feign"ed*ness}, n.
Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii. 10.
{Feigned issue} (Law), an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill. --Bouvier.
It was approved on a voice vote after Republicans sarcastically feigned an effort to double Solarz's aid figure. "We must act boldly and with great fanfare," intoned Rep. William Broomfield, R-Mich., before withdrawing his amendment.
But if he initially feigned indifference, Mr. Fuqua and his aides in the next few days were indefatigable.
Many peace activists feigned death while some Marine supporters cheered and yelled, "Thank you, Marines." At times, the two factions of observers got into shouting matches.
Earlier Saturday, the jurors had asked for the fourth time since they began deliberations to see the videotaped statement of McCray, in which he told police he kicked the jogger and feigned sex with her to impress his friends.
He feigned ignorance of a well-publicized Soviet academician's assertion that Moscow's initial decision in 1979 to send in the troops was a mistake.
A week later, when Nato shot down four Serb aircraft that were violating the UN no-fly zone, Russia did not protest, but took refuge in feigned uncertainty about the aircraft's true identity.
According to one European diplomat, tempers became so hot at one point Mr. Duarte feigned illness in order to postpone the talks until the following day.