pretend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 假装， 假托， 借口， (在演戏中) 装扮，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, he contended with himself that it was impossible to foresee what that lady might pretend next; and he felt assured that if she should take it into her brightly ornamented head to pretend that she had seen him do a murder and afterwards flay the vic-tim, she would infallibly go through with it until the play was played out.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's nonsense to pretend that life won't let one, that the past won't let one.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin struggled, "I don't pretend to know anything--except I do know what a man like Max Gottlieb means.
-- The wire-gang were as healthy and as simple as the west wind; they had no pretentiousness; though they handled electrical equipment they did not, like medics, learn a confusion of scientific terms and pretend to the farmers that they were scientists.
-- You pretend you haven't any college patriotism, but I know better--I know you're showing off--you admire the old place and our profs just as much as anybody.
-- "Now you look here, Lee!Of course we know your husband is a mutt, and no good outside the laboratory, but I do think you might PRETEND to be a little enthusiastic over the first address he's ever made--the very first he's ev-er tackled--when it went off so well."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And do you pretend to strength, too?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There wasanother boy, one Tommy Traddles, who I dreaded would make 80game of it, and pretend to be dreadfully frightened of me.
-- It was a great jest of his, I recollect, to pretend that hecouldn't keep his teeth from chattering, whenever mention wasmade of an Alguazil in connection with the adventures of Gil Blas;and I remember that when Gil Blas met the captain of the robbersin Madrid, this unlucky joker counterfeited such an ague of terror,that he was overheard by Mr. Creakle, who was prowling aboutthe passage, and handsomely flogged for disorderly conduct in thebedroom.
-- 'Edward,' replied my mother, timidly, 'you are a farbetter judge of all questions than I pretend to be.
-- But when she drew nearer, and I saw her blue eyeslooking bluer, and her dimpled face looking brighter, and herwhole self prettier and gayer, a curious feeling came over me thatmade me pretend not to know her, and pass by as if I were lookingat something a long way off.
-- Now don't pretend not to have a memory, becauseyou and I know better.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not pretend to Emma's genius for foretelling and guessing.
-- Don't pretend to be in raptures about mine.
-- He presently added, with a smile, 'I do not pretend to fix on times or places, but I must tell you that I have good reason to believe your little friend will soon hear of something to her advantage.'
-- She must abide by the evil of having refused him, whatever it may be; and as to the refusal itself, I will not pretend to say that I might not influence her a little; but I assure you there was very little for me or for any body to do.
-- Miss Nash had told her all this, and had talked a great deal more about Mr. Elton; and said, looking so very significantly at her, 'that she did not pretend to understand what his business might be, but she only knew that any woman whom Mr. El-ton could prefer, she should think the luckiest woman in the world; for, beyond a doubt, Mr. Elton had not his equal for beauty or agreeableness.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have lost in the race for money and good things, and I am not such a fool as to pretend to 'ee now I am poor, and you have got altogether above me.
-- "Gabriel!What in the name of fortune did you pretend to be Laban for?"
-- I bain't such a fool as to pretend that we who stick to the Church have the same chance as they, because we know we have not.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me, and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.'
-- I cannot pretend to describe what I then felt.
-- I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opin-ions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.
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