acting up 的 4 个定义
- anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- the process of doing: caught in the act.
- a formal decision, law, or the like, by a legislature, ruler, court, or other authority; decree or edict; statute; judgment, resolve, or award: an act of Congress.
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- to do something; exert energy or force; be employed or operative: He acted promptly in the emergency.
- to reach, make, or issue a decision on some matter: I am required to act before noon tomorrow.
- to operate or function in a particular way; perform specific duties or functions: to act as manager.
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- to represent with one's person: to act Macbeth.
- to feign; counterfeit: to act outraged virtue.
- to behave as: He acted the fool.
- Obsolete. to actuate.
- act on / upon to act in accordance with; follow: He acted on my advice.to have an effect on; affect: The stirring music acted on the emotions of the audience.
- act out, to demonstrate or illustrate by pantomime or by words and gestures: The party guests acted out stories for one another.Psychology.to give overt expression to without insightful understanding: The patients acted out early traumas by getting angry with the analyst.
- act up, to fail to function properly; malfunction: The vacuum cleaner is acting up again.to behave willfully: The children always act up in school the day before a holiday.to become painful or troublesome, especially after a period of improvement or remission: My arthritis is acting up again this morning.
- get / have one's act together Informal. to organize one's time, job, resources, etc., so as to function efficiently: The new administration is still getting its act together.
acting up 近义词
misbehave
acting up 的近义词 5 个
to malfunction
misbehave badly
acting up 的近义词 12 个
- act out
- be bad
- be out of line
- behave badly
- carry on
- fool around
- horseplay
- make trouble
- misbehave
- rebel
- set a bad example
- show off
acting up 的反义词 1 个
由acting up构成的短语
- act of faith
- act of God
- act on
- act one's age
- act out
- act up
- act upon
- catch in the act
- clean up (one's act)
- do a disappearing act
- get in the act
- get one's act together
- hard (tough) act to follow
- high-wire act
- in the act of
- put on an act
更多acting up例句
- Some adherents of QAnon are running for public office, but some others have committed violent acts or threatened them, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- With Election Day just seven weeks away, the act is unlikely to become law during this session of Congress.
- On July 31, the weekly $600 unemployment checks that were sent out thanks to the CARES act officially expired.
- Every eligible voter’s vote should be counted and not canceled out by fraudulent acts.
- The governor should forget about it until after the pandemic and legislators get their acts back together.
- A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
- Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.
- That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
- The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.
- But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.
- He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
- He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.
- He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.
- This seems to be contrary to the spirit and intent of the act, which is primarily to centralize reserves in Federal Reserve Banks.
- The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.