pretending 的 3 个定义
- to cause or attempt to cause to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- to appear falsely, as to deceive; feign: to pretend to go to sleep.
- to make believe: The children pretended to be cowboys.
- (5)
- to make believe.
- to lay claim to: She pretended to the throne.
- to make pretensions: He pretends to great knowledge.
- Obsolete. to aspire, as a suitor or candidate.
- Informal. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit: pretend diamonds.
pretending 近义词
feigning
更多pretending例句
- Let’s pretend that politicians wake up and don’t reopen restaurants and we avoid a big wave in March.
- After a certain point, you can’t even pretend that you have control.
- We should not pretend that the Facebook Oversight Board is more than a McGuffin designed to distract us from serious issues.
- It’s terrible, and you constantly have to pretend you like it.
- I wasn’t, but I pretended otherwise, just to see if Pennyroyal Station followed through on requests.
- For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.
- The irony has thinned with the economy, perhaps: Who can really afford just to pretend to DIY today?
- Sure, some parents would rather pretend their kids would never look at that stuff.
- Quickly, the lines between their pretend feelings for each other and their real ones are blurred.
- Or: “Jazz: Just pretend you like it, that's what everyone else is doing.”
- A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.
- I believe I murmured something suitable, but it was absurd to pretend to be overjoyed at the news.
- That my aspirations were satisfied I do not pretend, for ambition forbade any settled feeling of rest or content.
- I've only known Indian rivers for five and twenty years, and I don't pretend to understand.
- We shall have to pretend to do some gun practice, and drop a shell on to its surface to find out.