Pretend

(verb.) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; 'pretend the title of King'.

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• I do not pretend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We cannot pretend to-day that we have arrived at solutions to most of the questions they asked. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The new empires did not even pretend to be a continuation of the world empire of Rome. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I don't pretend to know anything more about it than I saw. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I don't pretend to know what that unbearable anxiety may have been. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You don't have to pretend you love me. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Where he can, your worship,' replied the officer; again pretending to receive Oliver's answer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• If ever the wind was in the east, said my guardian, pretending to look out of the window for a weathercock, I think it's there to-day! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And Pilar had been pretending all day. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• If observation shows that reason is an instrument of will, then only confusion can result from pretending that it isn't. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We were all very low, and none the higher for pretending to be in spirits. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This I observe in general, without pretending to draw any advantage from it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• During this last voyage I had no commerce with the master or any of his men; but, pretending I was sick, kept close in my cabin. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• At length, I got up whenever I saw him coming, and standing on the foot-board, pretended to look at the prospect; after which I did very well. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The way he'd say “I've been a regular brown bear to-day,” and take himself in his arms and hug himself at the thoughts of the brute he had pretended. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He pretended to no gradual change of views; he wheeled about at once. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Quite true,' added Mr Boffin; 'and I tested Venus by making him a pretended proposal or two; and I found him on the whole a very honest man, Wegg. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When we pretended to be so fond of one another, we exulted over her; that was what we did; we exulted over her and shamed her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It's a different thing altogether,--of course, it is,--and yet St. Clare pretends not to see it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Still looking at the fire, he said-- And who pretends to say Fred Vincy hasn't got expectations? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mortimer pretends, at great leisure, to consider. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by an advantageous balance of trade. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But she doesn't dare lose her hold of him on account of the money, and so when HE isn't jealous she pretends to be. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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