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单词 make as
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make as
a. intransitive. to make as if (also make as though, archaic. make as): to behave or act as if; to pretend that; to act as if with the intention to. Cf. sense 64b, and making-as-if n. at making n.1 Compounds 2b.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [phrase]
makec1275
to make wise1447
make as though?c1450
to let fare1483
to make a show ofa1500
to set a face1560
to take on (also upon) one(self)?1560
to make (a) miena1657
to make believe1773
to put it on1888
to play (the) fox1894
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 27 (MED) Þe kyng..made it as þey were nouȝt wrooþ.]
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 77 (MED) The prince..made as they he hadde take none hede therof.
a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 12099 (MED) Yite she made As though she had no deynte That to hir was Iuged Partonope.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxv. 222 Make as though ye were dyspleasyd with hym.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 655/2 I patter with the lyppes, as one dothe that maketh as though he prayed and dothe nat.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. ii. sig. A.iijv I wyll make as I sawe him not.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 41 Which reprochfull speech the Emperour put vp in silence, making as if hee had not heard it.
1611 Bible (King James) Josh. viii. 15 And Ioshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. View more context for this quotation
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 287 Thou makest as if those poor savage Wretches could do mighty things.
1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 13 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) V. 1858 I am very glad (to use a vulgar expression) that you make as if you were not well, though you really are.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iii. 109 He..beckons, and makes as he would speak.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 87 A knight.., who laid his lance In rest, and made as if to fall upon him.
1889 Dict. National Biogr. XVII. 59/2 Edward at first intended, or made as though he intended, to [etc.]
1919 V. Woolf Night & Day iv. 53 Denham..made as if he were tearing up handfuls of grass..from the carpet.
1957 G. Frick tr. ‘M. Yourcenar’ Coup de Grâce 86 With her foolish bundle she looked like a discharged servant-girl; shifting it from one arm to the other she made as if to escape.
1971 Leader (Durban) 7 May 9/2 The girls want to look like boys and the boys make as if they are girls.
1986 G. Keillor Lake Wobegon Days 105 She made as if to partake of the bread as it was passed, and Grandpa snatched it away from her.
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