資料來源 : pyDict
假裝的,偽稱的,嬌飾的
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pretend \Pre*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pretended}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Pretending}.] [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F.
pr['e]tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward,
pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch.
See {Tend}, v. t. ]
1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
--Dryden.
2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for
something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
[R.]
Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish
falsehood, snare them. --Milton.
3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to
show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to
simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he
pretend Surprisal. --Milton.
4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]
Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against
his state. --Shak.
5. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.] ``His target always
over her pretended.'' --Spenser.
資料來源 : WordNet®
pretending
n : the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was
only pretending" [syn: {pretense}, {pretence}, {simulation},
{feigning}]