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单词 play at sth
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play at sth

phrasal verb with play uk/pleɪ/us/pleɪ/verb

to pretend to be a particular person or to do a particular thing, usually as a game:

The children were playing at Batman and Robin.

to do something for enjoyment or interest, or without much care and effort, rather than in a serious way or as a job:

She's only playing at being an actress - she's going off to law school next year.

More examples

  • She's still playing at being a professional singer.
  • He's not really interested in the kids, he's just playing at being the perfect father to impress his parents.
  • The kids have been playing at Doctors and Nurses all afternoon.
  • The classroom has a home corner where the children can play at being Mummies and Daddies.
  • You can't just play at being a mother, it's a lifelong commitment.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Faking & pretending

  • a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
  • affect
  • assume
  • believe
  • bluff
  • changeling
  • charlatan
  • falsify
  • feign
  • fraud
  • go through the motions idiom
  • guise
  • phoney
  • play possum idiom
  • play sth out
  • play-acting
  • pose as sb
  • professed
  • purport
  • quack

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