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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew she hadn't lovedCharlie and he wouldn't let her pretend to the nice polite sentiments that she should express.
-- Actually she was neither, but she could pretend to be.
-- Having to pretend that her heart was in the grave when it wasn't.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish to pay for them," I added--otherwise I thought he might only pretend to make them, "with ready money."
-- "I can't pretend that I do like them, and I suppose you don't particularly.
-- "I might a took warning by Arthur, but I didn't; and I won't pretend I was partick'ler--for where 'ud be the good on it, dear boy and comrade?
-- He added that he did not pretend to say what he might or might not have done to Compeyson, but that, in the moment of his laying his hand on his cloak to identify him, that villain had staggered up and staggered back, and they had both gone overboard together, when the sudden wrenching of him (Magwitch) out of our boat, and the endeavor of his captor to keep him in it, had capsized us.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now do you lie down close by the child, and pretend to be watching it, and I will come out of the 28 Grimms' Fairy Taleswood and run away with it; you must run after me as fast as you can, and I will let it drop; then you may carry it back, and they will think you have saved their child, and will be so thankful to you that they will take care of you as long as you live.'
-- 'Well,' said the old dame, 'that is no very hard task: only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening; and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be fast asleep.'
-- However, the fox bid him be of good cheer, and said, 'I will help you; lie down there, stretch yourself out quite stiff, and pretend to be dead.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make those tubes, of a size proportionable to all other things in his majesty's king-dom, and the largest need not be above a hundred feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.'
-- He said, 'that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathemat-ical principles, would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined.'
-- Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister, where no witness was by; unlock the thoughts and cabinets of ambassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpet-ual misfortune to be mistaken.
-- 'I understand you well,' said my master: 'it is now very plain, from all you have spoken, that whatever share of reason the Yahoos pretend to, the Houyhnhnms are your masters; I heartily wish our Yahoos would be so trac-table.'
-- 'Sometimes the quarrel between two princes is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't pretend to be of the angel breed myself, and I don't thay but what, when you mith'd your tip, you'd find me cut up rough, and thwear an oath or two at you.
-- 'I do not pretend to understand these things,' said Mrs. Sparsit, with dignity, 'my lot having been signally cast in a widely different sphere; and Mr. Sparsit, as a Powler, being also quite out of the pale of any such dissensions.
-- Then, why don't they improve it, ma'am!It's the first consideration of a rational creature, and it's what they pretend to want.'
-- 'Pretend indeed!'
-- But, your bringing-up was different from mine; mine was a real thing, by George!You're a gentleman, and I don't pretend to be one.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ), what insensate folly to pretend to penetrate into the interior of the mighty earth!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'People pretend to have emotions, and they really feel nothing.
-- He ad-mitted, also, how important it was even TO PRETEND not to care about the halfpence and the small things of life.
-- But the sly sort of women who are like that pretend they're not.
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