| 词汇 | pretense |
| 释义 | pretense noun[ U ] uk /prɪˈtens/ us /prɪˈtens/ US spelling ofpretence（pretence的美式拼写） 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 pretense | American Dictionarypretense noun[ U ] us/prɪˈtens, ˈpri·tens/ a way of behaving that is intended to deceive people: He made no pretense of looking for work. [ pl ]Money was collected under false pretenses (= by deceiving people). Examples of pretensepretense Whereas authentication concerns the construction of a true or veridical identity, denaturalization foregrounds untruth, pretense, and imposture in identity positioning. As with the echoic model, characteristics of the pretense and theater models are preserved by a framing account. The irony thus becomes evident only on the second reading (the pretense model would claim that, on the first reading, we are the "uninitiated audience"). We provide examples of similar claims in research on the development of the perception of emotion, pretense understanding, autobiographical memory, and event knowledge. We provide examples of similar claims in research on emotion perception, pretense understanding, autobiographical memory, and event knowledge. But, as with traditional ethnographic writing, the pretense to being there is usually not what it appears. You see there is a pretense this is just a naval station and you never know which is the pretense: spaceship or navy. To prevent anyone from taking refuge in the pretense of ignorance. If rights were usurped, as the critics had predicted, it would provide them pretense for a political comeback. As with pretense, religious acts of faith involve exaggerated gestures that are intended to connote a situation that goes beyond the one perceptually manifest. Metarepresentation is involved in pretense when a participant expresses awareness of his or her own or the play partner's pretend intentions. Yet the pretense theory is at as much of a loss as the echoic theory when confronted by such varied instantiations. This pretense is manifested by the use of normative language that officials characteristically employ when they car r y out their official duties. Without any pretense to a comprehensive account let us mention some of the highlights. We both k new it was a pretense, and that his time was drawing near. See all examples of pretense 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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