playacting

常见例句

This was not bedroom playacting between lovers;
这可不是恋人之间在卧室里演戏；
The question Is this playacting or does he really hate us?
他到底是装模作样还是真的恨我们？
George is ashamed of his roarings because they aren't playacting.
乔治对自己的咆哮感到羞愧，因为它们并非假装。

The upcoming debate on the debt limit offers the perfect opportunity for Congress to stop playacting and put a real budget constraint into effect.
FORBES: In Passing The Most Recent Budget, Congress And The President Lied
Tang Wei, a former model and a prodigious young actress, plays a member of a political-theatre group that carries its playacting into active resistance to the Japanese occupation.
NEWYORKER: Lust, Caution
C. is a sham, mere playacting because it does not contain the essential elements of real budgeting: namely hard spending, revenue and borrowing constraints, which politicians and bureaucrats avoid like the plague.
FORBES: In Passing The Most Recent Budget, Congress And The President Lied