pretend
v. 假裝; 扮作; 自詡
adj. 假裝的
If you pretend that something is the case, you act in a way that is intended to make people believe that it is the case, although in fact it is not.
I pretend that things are really okay when they're not...
當情況不好的時候我假裝一切順利。
Sometimes the boy pretended to be asleep...
有時這個男孩會假裝睡著了。
If children or adults pretend that they are doing something, they imagine that they are doing it, for example as part of a game.
She can sunbathe and pretend she's in Spain...
她可以曬曬太陽,假裝自己是在西班牙。
The children pretend to be different animals dancing to the music.
孩子們扮成不同的動物,隨著音樂起舞。
If you do not pretend that something is the case, you do not claim that it is the case.
We do not pretend that the past six years have been without problems for us...
我們並不自誇在過去的6年中沒有遇到任何問題。
Within this lecture I cannot pretend to deal adequately with dreams.
在這一次講座中,我不敢自詡能對夢境作透徹的分析。
1. the enactment of a pretense;
1. make believe with the intent to deceive;
2. behave unnaturally or affectedly;
3. put forward a claim and assert right or possession of;
4. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;
5. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like;
6. state insincerely;
1. imagined as in a play;
feign, pretend, simulate
這些動詞均有"假裝"之意。
Men may no longer pretend that the quest for disarmament is a sign of weakness.
人們可能不再認為謀求裁軍是一種軟弱的表現.
I won't pretend that this will be easy.
當然這實屬不易.
I don't pretend to grateful.
我不掩飾感激之情.
They can separate facts from opinion and don't pretend to have all the answers.
他們既懂得區分事實與觀點,又不會裝作通曉一切.
And you pretend it's bedtime and stay super still, okay ? Okay.
-你假裝現在是睡覺時間然後躺著不動好 嗎 ?