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  1. She lived a lie for 20 years by pretending to be his wife.
    她假扮他的妻子已经20年了.
  2. Pretending to faint was merely an artifice.
    假装昏迷只不过是个诡计。


pretending
[ noun ]
the act of giving a false appearance
<noun.act>
his conformity was only pretending


Pretend \Pre*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pretended}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Pretending}.] [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F.
pr['e]tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward,
pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch.
See {Tend}, v. t. ]
1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
--Dryden.

2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for
something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
[R.]

Lest that too heavenly form, pretended
To hellish falsehood, snare them. --Milton.

3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to
show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to
simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.

This let him know,
Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend
Surprisal. --Milton.

4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]

Such as shall pretend
Malicious practices against his state. --Shak.

5. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.] ``His target always
over her pretended.'' --Spenser.

  1. A man who was killed by police after pretending to hold a teen-age girl hostage for three hours had a history of erratic behavior and family problems, said a woman who had been one of his many foster mothers.
  2. (The choreographer Mark Morris, when a young dancer, left a ballet company because 'I got tired of pretending to be a straight guy in love with a ballerina.') So why do gay men go to ballet?
  3. Moreover, it has done it in a sneaky way, pretending that its main objective was to help companies rather than raise revenue. Now, the pensions industry has decided that fire must be returned against the snipers.
  4. Although the character here isn't fully fleshed out, the concept is incisive: It's a seminar on how Hispanics can get ahead by pretending to be Oriental.
  5. Traders spend a large part of their day pretending to their rivals to be selling when they want to buy, and buying when they want to sell.
  6. She says she coined the term two years ago when, in the comic books she writes, she started portraying young women golfers pretending to be men.
  7. Some complained it called into question the nature of acting itself _ pretending to be someone the actor is not.
  8. When they arrived, Huang and three others, pretending to be police and using Huang's club and handcuffs, robbed the farmers from the neighboring Guangxi autonomous region of 15 ounces of gold.
  9. "They are free; they are very free," she said. "I'm not concerned about making them real. I'm not pretending to make them literal.
  10. His wife, Barbara, pretending to read another card, said, "We're all behind you."
  11. "Does the Labor Party go on vainly pretending that they can challenge and beat the Conservatives outright?" he asked.
  12. The so-called "Vigilante Float" carried several rambunctious men pretending they were cowboys from the Old West who staged a mock hanging on the back of a flatbed truck.
  13. After the court decision Monday, the New Nation's acting editor, Gabu Tugwana, said "We are pretending we don't face any suspension.
  14. Red Star is the similar Soviet plan, for the Soviets are also preparing for war while pretending to negotiate for peace.
  15. "There are 20 cases where the Germans are pretending nothing is going on," said Perle, the former U.S. defense official.
  16. The Treasury does not have the ability to deliver the interest rate reductions that Tory backbenchers stridently demand; and no purpose is served by pretending that they can be by spending curbs which merely put people out of work.
  17. In pretending that "The Writing Life" was composed to help other writers, Annie Dillard has perpetrated a counterfeit.
  18. We all entered into a conspiracy of pretending that we couldn't hear him until he was done.
  19. While it was researching for "Weddings Extraordinaire," other businesses called the program's organizers to complain that a competitor was prying into their methods by pretending to be part of the program.
  20. It is hard to see that it makes much difference to the abused child whether or not the abuser is wearing a pointed hat or pretending to be Lucifer: it is the abuse that matters and which should be rooted out and stopped.
  21. You're just pretending to be sick."
  22. But after the ride, they sing their own version of the Mardi Gras song while men dance around them pretending to whip them with braided burlap.
  23. When General Mills did that with Benefit, P&G cried foul, arguing that the General Mills cereal "is a drug pretending to be a food."
  24. I like pretending." As he grew older, his feelings for acting deepened.
  25. Or do they think it's just a public relations gimmick by people pretending to be better than they really are?
  26. As they were returning, Harris began to yell, but because he had been pretending to drown earlier in the day, no attention was paid to him, said Montgomery County sheriff's spokesman Bob Morrison.
  27. Once she spun like a comedian pretending to be a mad top.
  28. Evangelical Christians are getting exit visas from the Soviet Union by pretending to be Jews wanting to go to Israel, according to a report that says many end up settling in western Massachusetts.
  29. The local guides who show us around the towns we stop in keep telling us that Andalusia is an extremely dry place, but even the weather is acting suspiciously: it is pretending it is English.
  30. Their shop steward has called them to a meeting and his manner - unsmiling and full of importance - tells them the matter is serious. Behind him, several managers sit in an office, pretending not to be interested.
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