| 单词 | pretend |
| 释义 | pretend (once / 127 pages) vadjn To pretend is to act as if you're someone else. If you pretend to be your mother for a phone conference with your math teacher, try putting on her high heels to help you get into character. When children or actors are pretending, it's fine, just playing. But if you pretend to someone who doesn't know you're just playing, you're likely to be condemned for it. No one likes it of you pretend to be a good member of the community just so people won't suspect you when you steal things from their houses. You might pretend you went to Harvard to impress someone, but if he finds out you didn't, he'll be very unimpressed. WORD FAMILYpretend: pretended, pretendedly, pretender, pretending, pretendingly, pretends+/pretender: pretenders/pretending: pretendings, unpretending/unpretending: unpretendingly USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, I buried it, pretended that it did not exist. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) “You act to nothing, really. You pretend there’s someone there, which is fun and kind of challenging.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) In both cases pretending happens, and I am interested in that progression from “pretending to be” to “turning into.” The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) 1v make believe with the intent to deceive Syn|Hypo|Hyper affect, dissemble, feign, sham make, make believe represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like play possum to pretend to be dead take a divepretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer bull, bullshit, fake, talk through one's hatspeak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths moutharticulate silently; form words with the lips only lip-sync, lip-synchmove the lips in synchronization (with recorded speech or song) belie, misrepresent represent falsely 2v behave unnaturally or affectedly Syn|Hypo act, dissemble act, behave, do behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself assume, feign, sham, simulate make a pretence of playpretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity feintdeceive by a mock action 3v represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like Syn|Hypo|Hyper make, make believe affect, dissemble, feign, sham make believe with the intent to deceive go through the motions pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it act, play, represent play a role or part 4v put forward a claim and assert right or possession of pretend the title of King Hyper arrogate, claim, lay claim demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to 5v put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong Syn|Hypo|Hyper guess, hazard, venture anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise make a prediction about; tell in advance surmise, suspectimagine to be the case or true or probable readinterpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior outguess, second-guessattempt to anticipate or predict augurpredict from an omen bet, wagermaintain with or as if with a bet calculate, forecastpredict in advance prophesy, vaticinatepredict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration speculate talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion 6v state insincerely She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber She pretends to be an expert on wine Syn|Hyper profess claim assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing 7adj imagined as in a play dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish Syn make-believe unreal lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria 8n the enactment of a pretense it was just pretend Syn|Hyper make-believe feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation the act of giving a false appearance |
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