If someone feigns a particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true.
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。
If you pretend that something is the case, you act in a way that is intended to make people believe that it is the case, although in fact it is not.
I pretend that things are really okay when they're not...
当情况不好的时候我假装一切顺利。
sembl= to be like 相像
dissemble v. 假装,掩盖
dis 不 + sembl 相像 + e → 和本性不一样 → 假装
resemble v. 和…相像
re 一再 + sembl 相像 + e → 和…相像
semblable adj. 相似的,外表(上)的
semblable n. 相似,类似
sembl 相像 + able 可…的,能…的;具有…性质的 → 相似,类似
semblance n. 相似;外貌
sembl 相像 + ance 状态,性质,状况 → 相似;外貌
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