Picture someone putting on a face that does not match what is inside: they know the truth, and they behave as if something else were true. The word always has two layers — the real state underneath and the show on top — and it stays neutral about why. A child at a tea party and a witness lying to the police are doing the same structural thing.
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原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pretendverb/pɹəˈtɛnd/
- 1
To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.
- You don't have to pretend to like the soup.
- 2
To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.
- She didn't have a real piano to play, so she just pretended.
- 3
To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.
- He pretended an air of indifference that he'd never assumed before.
- 4
formalTo lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).
- The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.
- Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
- 5
obsoleteTo hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
- Lest that too heavenly form, pretended / To hellish falsehood, snare them.
- 6
obsoleteTo intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
- Such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state.
- 7
obsoleteTo hold before one; to extend.
- Pastorella […] Was by the Captaine all this while defended, / Who, minding more her safety then himselfe, / His target alwayes over her pretended[…].
- But had thoſe vvits the vvonders of their dayes, / Or that ſvveete Teian Poet [Anacreon] vvhich did ſpend / His plenteous vaine in ſetting forth her [Venus's] prayſe, / Seene but a glims of this, vvhich I pretend, / Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, […]
pretendadj/pɹəˈtɛnd/
- 1
Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.
- As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.
pretendnoun/pɹəˈtɛnd/
- 1
informalThe act of engaging in pretend play.
- We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。