英语口语：“你能不能表现得成熟一点（”怎么说）

今天我们来聊聊和 “act” 有关的4个短语，我们用它们来描述某人的行为。非常的实用！

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act your age

to behave the way that people your age should behave and not to behave like a younger person. 要像你这个年龄的人那样行事，不要像比你年轻的人那样行事。换言之，成熟一点！

Sometimes when I"m horsing around with my son, my wife tells me to act my age, not my shoe size.有时我和儿子闹着玩的时候，我妻子让我表现得成熟一点。

act as if、act as though、act like

to pretend that something is true. 假装某事是真的。

I knew she was upset by the news, but she acted as if she didn"t care.我知道她听到这个消息很难过，但她表现得好像不在乎似的。

When I received the present, I was actually really happy, but I didn"t act like it.当我收到礼物时，我真的很高兴，但我没有表现出来。

Despite her fiancé leaving her at the altar, she acted as though nothing had happened.尽管她的未婚夫在婚礼上离她而去，她却表现得若无其事。altar本来是指在基督教仪式中用作礼拜中心的平台或桌子(见下图)。西方婚礼通常是在教堂举行的。如果你被left at the altar，说明对方在最后一刻决定不结婚了。