Pretended

(imp. & p. p.) of Pretend

(a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.

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• 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.
• Yes; he has pretended to make my opinions and tastes his own. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This out of to-day, quite an unnecessary out so far as the attendance, which was its pretended object, went, was planned by me alone for thee alone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It has been pretended [L'Art de penser. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The least they pretended was that they were going to cut Lowick Parish into sixes and sevens. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I could never have been of any use, if I had not pretended a little. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He pretended that the greatest poets must, when they first began to write, have committed as many faults as he did. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Madame saw all this, but she still pretended not to see: she had not rectitude of soul to confront the child with her vices. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This pretended African speech was an excellent parody of one delivered by Mr. Jackson, of Georgia. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Government, it is pretended, could borrow this capital at three per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Or he may have been taken in, in some pretended bargain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And I seem to remember a story of a man they pretended to chair and let him fall into a dust-heap on purpose! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He pretended to be writing at a paper, when the Captain entered. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It has either presented the business man with money or harassed him with bungling enthusiasm in the pretended interests of the consumer. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• How could she have pretended love, and raised him to such a pinnacle of hope only to cast him down to such utter depths of despair! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She was frightened, and when she was frightened she always laughed and pretended to be jaunty. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I had to put my hand behind his legs for the poker when I went up to the fireplace to stir the fire, but still pretended not to know him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• To whom my sister, more for the relief of her own mind than for the gratification of his, related my pretended experiences. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• To form a clear idea of any thing, is an undeniable argument for its possibility, and is alone a refutation of any pretended demonstration against it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Cyrus pretended a right to the throne above his elder brother, because he was born after his father's accession. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Of all the train none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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