英语词汇“to play dumb”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. intransitive. With adjective as complement. To pretend to be in a specified state or to have a particular characteristic or quality. Chiefly in to play dead, to play dumb, to play sick.

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1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton III. viii. i. 217 But we must not play sad now, my dear, I hope you will be happy here.

1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 105/1 I disliked study excessively. I ‘played truant’, or played sick, as my fancy dictated.

1861 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 28 Oct. One of them was shot dead and the other,..concluding discretion was the better part of valor, played dead.

1889 Los Angeles Times 4 Mar. 2/4 The fellow is an actor from away back, and can play sick in such a way that almost anybody would be fooled.

1901 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 18 Jan. 3/2 She hit upon the crazy notion of playing deaf and dumb.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 21 Oct. 1022/2 The characteristics of the response are..reminiscent of the opossum which, when threatened, plays dead.

1992 P. Auster Leviathan (1993) i. 3 I did my best to play dumb for them, to give away as little as I could.

2000 Nation (N.Y.) 29 May 35/1 No one expects Britain to roll over and play dead with the undermining of the moral and legal high ground it has sought to occupy.

单词	to play dumb
释义	> as lemmas to play dumb b. intransitive. With adjective as complement. To pretend to be in a specified state or to have a particular characteristic or quality. Chiefly in to play dead, to play dumb, to play sick. ΚΠ 1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton III. viii. i. 217 But we must not play sad now, my dear, I hope you will be happy here. 1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 105/1 I disliked study excessively. I ‘played truant’, or played sick, as my fancy dictated. 1861 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 28 Oct. One of them was shot dead and the other,..concluding discretion was the better part of valor, played dead. 1889 Los Angeles Times 4 Mar. 2/4 The fellow is an actor from away back, and can play sick in such a way that almost anybody would be fooled. 1901 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 18 Jan. 3/2 She hit upon the crazy notion of playing deaf and dumb. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 21 Oct. 1022/2 The characteristics of the response are..reminiscent of the opossum which, when threatened, plays dead. 1992 P. Auster Leviathan (1993) i. 3 I did my best to play dumb for them, to give away as little as I could. 2000 Nation (N.Y.) 29 May 35/1 No one expects Britain to roll over and play dead with the undermining of the moral and legal high ground it has sought to occupy. extracted from playv. < as lemmas
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