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pretend

/pɹəˈtɛnd/ 动词 A2

中文: 假装、佯装

  1. To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. (intransitive) · You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.· You don't have to pretend to like the soup.
  2. To engage in make-believe. (intransitive) · She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.· She didn't have a real piano to play, so she just pretended.
  3. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.). (intransitive, transitive) · She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.· He pretended an air of indifference that he'd never assumed before.
  4. To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (formal, intransitive) · The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.

He/she/it pretends · 过去式 pretended · 过去分词 pretended · -ing形式 pretending

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动词形式

原形
pretend
He/she/it
pretends
过去式
pretended
过去分词
pretended
-ing形式
pretending

来自图书馆

They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten.
《The Jungle Book》,第34页 · B2
The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest.
《The Jungle Book》,第48页 · B2
They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
《The Jungle Book》,第48页 · B2
Let’s pretend we are ...
《The Jungle Book》,第63页 · B2

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