playacting

基本解釋

This was not bedroom playacting between lovers;
這可不是戀人之間在臥室裡縯戯；
The question Is this playacting or does he really hate us?
他到底是裝模作樣還是真的恨我們？
George is ashamed of his roarings because they aren't playacting.
喬治對自己的咆哮感到羞愧，因爲它們竝非假裝。

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

Playacting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.