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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't pretend it is that, but still, after all, such an adventure would not be very unpleasant to me.
-- "You understand," replied the geographer, "we are to pretend to fall victims to the flames of the Maori Pluto, and to disappear spiritually into the tomb of Kara-Tete.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is useless for us to pretend that we do not know you, Dr. Watson,' said he.
-- 'I don't pretend to know much about these things, and I'd be a better judge of a horse or a steer than of a picture.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I not just better tell him I have found it, and pretend I never guessed where it was?'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is for-gotten.
-- They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
-- Let's pretend we are ... never mind, Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
-- Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people's whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men's hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped.
-- Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I call them Iroquois, because to me every native, who speaks a foreign tongue, is accounted an enemy, though he may pretend to serve the king!If Webb wants faith and honesty in an Indian, let him bring out the tribes of the Delawares, and send these greedy and lying Mohawks and Oneidas, with their six nations of varlets, where in nature they belong, among the French!'
-- Did he not pretend to go back to his tribe, who had treated him ill, and driven him from their wigwams like a dog?
-- These varlets pretend to be bent chiefly on their sun-down meal, but the moment it is dark they will be on our trail, as true as hounds on the scent.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He doesn't pretend to be a genius.
-- "I don't pretend to be a great painter," he said, "I'm not a Michael Angelo, no, but I have something.
-- But neither here nor elsewhere do I pretend to give his exact words; his vocabulary was small, and he had no gift for framing sentences, so that one had to piece his meaning together out of interjections, the expression of his face, gestures and hackneyed phrases.
-- But I said nothing, and Alec Carmichael proceeded reflectively:"Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am rubbing," replied Herbert, laughing, "but I don't pretend to do anything else but warm myself instead of shivering, and soon I shall be as hot as you are, my good Pencroft!"
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because he believes many people pretend to more admiration of the beauties of nature than they really feel, and is disgusted with such pretensions, he affects greater indifference and less discrimination in viewing them himself than he possesses.
-- "Don't pretend to deny it, because you know it is what every body talks of.
-- "Nay, my dear, I'm sure I don't pretend to say that there an't.
-- "Though we have seen him once or twice at my uncle's, it is rather too much to pretend to know him very well."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of this she was so sure that she only wished now to pretend she had called for advice.
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