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《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why should he pretend to have anything to do with human beings at all?
-- I don't believe in the humanity I pretend to be part of, I don't care a straw for the social ideals I live by, I hate the dying organic form of social mankind so it can't be anything but trumpery, to work at education.
-- "We could hardly pretend to be strangers, could we?"
-- And she wouldn't be willing even to pretend to.
-- It took all her courage for her to continue brushing her hair, as usual, for her to pretend she was at her ease.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't think there's hardly a chance of his really losing it, but carriers are under great temptation to pretend they lose things, no doubt,' said Mrs Nubbles apprehensively, in reference to the first point.
-- And in further assurance that he's safe and sound, Kit speaks to her again; and then Barbara goes off into another fit of laughter, and then into another fit of crying; and then Barbara's mother and Kit's mother nod to each other and pretend to scold her but only to bring her to herself the faster, bless you! and being experienced matrons, and acute at perceiving the first dawning symptoms of recovery, they comfort Kit with the assurance that 'she'll do now,' and so dismiss him to the place from whence he came.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the day before all because Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be all the rest.'
-- And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, 'Nurse!Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyaena, and you're a bone.'
-- 'Let's pretend that you're the Red Queen, Kitty!Do you know, I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her.
-- Oh, Kitty!how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House!I'm sure it's got, oh!such beautiful things in it!Let's pretend there's a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty.
-- Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through.
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