| 词汇 | pretending |
| 释义 | pretending present participle ofpretend pretend verb[ I ] uk /prɪˈtend/ us /prɪˈtend/ B2 to behave as if something is true when you know that it is not, especially in order to deceive people or as a game: 假装，伪称;（游戏中）装扮 [ + (that) ]He pretended (that) he didn't mind, but I knew that he did.他假装不在乎，但我知道他很介意。 The children pretended (that) they were dinosaurs.孩子们装扮成恐龙。 [ + to infinitive ]Were you just pretending to be interested?你只是在假装感兴趣吗？ She's not really hurt - she's only pretending.她并不是真的受了伤——她只是在装。 Of course I was angry - I can't pretend otherwise.我当然生气了——怎么可能会是装的。 to act as if something is true when it is not pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise. make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce. play at somethingUK The children are playing at cops and robbers. role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping. fakeShe's only faking being ill. feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance. not pretend to do somethingformal to not claim something that is false: 不想妄称… I don't pretend to be an expert on the subject.我不想妄称自己是该学科的专家。 She'll pretend that she hasn't seen us - you watch.她会假装没看见我们的——你看着吧。 Just for a laugh, I pretended that I'd forgotten it was his birthday.我假装忘了那天是他的生日，只是想开个玩笑。 He isn't really angry - he's just pretending.他不是真生气——他只是假装的。 She sidled past him, pretending that she had not seen him.她从他身边悄悄走过，假装没有看见他。 He even tried to pretend he was a film star's son - can you believe it? Faking & pretending affect air guitar assume believe bluff someone into something/doing something changeling cry faker false false modesty falsifiable falsify out-bluff pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act professed purport quackery You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Children's games Examples of pretendingpretending In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. For the overwhelming majority of subjects (92 %, n=48), the preoccupation with becoming an amputee was first manifested by their pretending to be an amputee. It is no good pretending otherwise, even if your first love is mathematical genetics. Why go through the charade of pretending to do a play in order to humiliate fellow actors and the playwright? Is lex mercatoria, for example, actually emancipated from politics - or is it precisely political by pretending not to be so? In postwar years, he pursued him mercilessly, winning one battle after another, pretending all along that truth alone, not rivalry, was at stake. Without pretending generality, we introduce the notion of amortized complexity in a form suiting our purpose. They go on to state that what is critical is the ability to attend to mental state properties such as pretending and believing. The angel now plays, pretending this is really what happened. Compare this issue to the problem of how we know whether someone is really smiling or is only pretending to smile. I go through life left-gloved, pretending the mate is in my pocket. Regrettably, the practice of introducing medical students as doctors or pretending that they are doctors is common. Pretending to be 'just a group of girls', the girl groups invite identification between the audience member and the clique. It can be very uncomfortable pretending to be something one is not. And none of them were false either, you know, they didn't come in pretending their kids were angels. Without pretending to 'cover' this debate in its entirety, we may, nonetheless, note some of its key moments. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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