pretending
present participle ofpretend
| 单词 | pretending |
| 释义 | pretending present participle ofpretend pretend verb[I] uk/prɪˈtend/us/prɪˈtend/B2 tobehaveas if something istruewhen youknowthat it is not,especiallyinordertodeceivepeopleor as agame: [+ (that)]He pretended(that)he didn'tmind, but Iknewthat he did. Thechildrenpretended(that)they weredinosaurs. [+ to infinitive]Were you just pretendingtobeinterested? She's not reallyhurt- she's only pretending. OfcourseI wasangry- I can't pretendotherwise. not pretend to dosomethingformal to notclaimsomething that isfalse: I don't pretend to be anexperton thesubject.
Faking & pretending
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Children's games Assertions & asserting Examplesofpretendingpretending In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. For the overwhelming majority of subjects (92 %, n=48), the preoccupation with becoming an amputee was first manifested by theirpretendingto be an amputee. From theCambridge English Corpus It is no goodpretendingotherwise, even if your first love is mathematical genetics. From theCambridge English Corpus Why go through the charade ofpretendingto do a play in order to humiliate fellow actors and the playwright? From theCambridge English Corpus Is lex mercatoria, for example, actually emancipated from politics - or is it precisely political bypretendingnot to be so? From theCambridge English Corpus In postwar years, he pursued him mercilessly, winning one battle after another,pretendingall along that truth alone, not rivalry, was at stake. From theCambridge English Corpus Withoutpretendinggenerality, we introduce the notion of amortized complexity in a form suiting our purpose. From theCambridge English Corpus They go on to state that what is critical is the ability to attend to mental state properties such aspretendingand believing. From theCambridge English Corpus The angel now plays,pretendingthis is really what happened. From theCambridge English Corpus Compare this issue to the problem of how we know whether someone is really smiling or is onlypretendingto smile. From theCambridge English Corpus I go through life left-gloved,pretendingthe mate is in my pocket. From theCambridge English Corpus Regrettably, the practice of introducing medical students as doctors orpretendingthat they are doctors is common. From theCambridge English Corpus Pretendingto be 'just a group of girls', the girl groups invite identification between the audience member and the clique. From theCambridge English Corpus It can be very uncomfortablepretendingto be something one is not. From theCambridge English Corpus And none of them were false either, you know, they didn't come inpretendingtheir kids were angels. From theCambridge English Corpus Withoutpretendingto 'cover' this debate in its entirety, we may, nonetheless, note some of its key moments. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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