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：
-- They pretend they're passionate and have thrills.
-- She could not even pretend there was nothing between herself and the keeper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't pretend to know positively how a prisoner might feel.
-- I don't pretend to stand between your mother and you.'
-- 'Oh Mr Clennam you insincerest of creatures,' said Flora, 'I perceive already you have not lost your old way of paying compliments, your old way when you used to pretend to be so sentimentally struck you know at least I don't mean that, I oh I don't know what I mean!'
-- But I pretend to-night that I am at a party.'
-- He went out upon the Sunday afternoon when in this very parlour he had dined, and met her, with appointment or without appointment; which, I do not pretend to say.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?"
-- Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not pretend to quote: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT, Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, November 1st, 1836.
-- There are only two books in being which at all pretend to put the living sperm whale before you, and at the same time, in the remotest degree succeed in the attempt.
-- I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical description of the various species, or in this place at least to much of any description.
-- Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I certainly HAVE had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordi-nary now.
-- 'I cannot pretend to be sorry,' said Wickham, after a short interruption, 'that he or that any man should not be esti-mated beyond their deserts; but with HIM I believe it does not often happen.
-- 'How near it may be to MINE, I cannot pretend to say.
-- The next was in these words: 'I do not pretend to regret anything I shall leave in Hertfordshire, except your society, my dear-est friend; but we will hope, at some future period, to enjoy many returns of that delightful intercourse we have known, and in the meanwhile may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence.
-- 'If!Do you then pretend to be ignorant of it?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It presently occurred to me that it was in vain to pretend to make a raft with the wind off-shore; and that it was my business to be gone before the tide of flood began, otherwise I might not be able to reach the shore at all.
-- 'How canst thou become such a hypocrite,' said I, even audibly, 'to pretend to be thankful for a condition which, however thou mayest endeavour to be contented with, thou wouldst rather pray heartily to be delivered from?'
-- But now, when, as I have said, I began to be weary of the fruitless excursion which I had made so long and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself be-gan to alter; and I began, with cooler and calmer thoughts, to consider what I was going to engage in; what authority or call I had to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom Heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunished to go on, and to be as it were the executioners of His judgments one upon another; how far these people were offenders against me, and what right I had to engage in the quarrel of that blood which they shed promiscuously upon one another.
-- 'Well,' says I, 'my conditions are but two; first, that while you stay in this island with me, you will not pretend to any au-thority here; and if I put arms in your hands, you will, upon all occasions, give them up to me, and do no prejudice to me or mine upon this island, and in the meantime be gov-erned by my orders; secondly, that if the ship is or may be recovered, you will carry me and my man to England pas-sage free.'
-- I scarce knew in what manner to receive them, but found to draw ourselves in a close line was the only way; so we formed in a moment; but that we might not have too much interval, I ordered that only ev-ery other man should fire, and that the others, who had not fired, should stand ready to give them a second volley im-mediately, if they continued to advance upon us; and then that those that had fired at first should not pretend to load their fusees again, but stand ready, every one with a pistol, for we were all armed with a fusee and a pair of pistols each man; so we were, by this method, able to fire six volleys, half of us at a time; however, at present we had no neces-sity; for upon firing the first volley, the enemy made a full stop, being terrified as well with the noise as with the fire.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to DRAW HIM IN; that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.
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