play possum

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When the dog approached, the child decided to play possum to avoid being bothered.

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什麼是玩負鼠？動物知識 (What Is Playing Possum? Animal Facts)

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什麼是玩負鼠？動物知識 (What Is Playing Possum? Animal Facts)

Well, humans can try to play possum, but they probably don’t do as well as the real thing.
人類也可以嘗試扮演負鼠，但他們的表現可能不如真的負鼠。
Now if you want to play possum like the real thing, you need to just pass out, have your
現在，如果你想像真的負鼠一樣玩負鼠遊戲，你需要昏過去，讓你的

Why trauma can destroy our ability to connect with others | Bessel van der Kolk

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Why trauma can destroy our ability to connect with others | Bessel van der Kolk

But people have these automatic responses, or on a more primitive level even, is that people's brain shuts down and they lose track of themselves and they basically make themselves disappear, very much like animals can do that also in the wild, they can sort of collapse and play possum, as it were.