vt. 假装，伪装；假称；装扮；
vi. 扮演；自称；假装，矫作；
adj. 仿制的；
用作动词(v.)
用作不及物动词
S+～(+A)
He wasn't really crying; he was only pretending.
他并不是真的在哭,他只是装装样子。
The time has come to stop pretending.
够了,别装蒜了。
用作系动词
S+～+asif/like-clause
When I asked her, she pretended as if she had not idea at all about it.
当我问她时,她假装似乎对此事一无所知。
She pretended,I believe, like she was poor and desperate.
我相信她是假装的,好像她是又贫穷又绝望的。
用作及物动词
S+～+n./pron.
He pretended illness.
他假装病了。
Don't pretend ignorance.
别装蒜。
They pretended indifference.
他们假装出漠不关心的样子。
He pretended sleep when his mother called him.
他母亲叫他时他假装睡着了。
S+～+to-v
Let's pretend to be policemen.
让我们扮演警察吧。
I don't pretend to be a scholar.
我没自命为一位学者。
He pretended to be ill.
他假装有病。
She pretends to be deaf, but hears all we are saying.
她假装听不见,但是我们说的她听得清清楚楚。
S+～+that-clause
Cage pretended that she was asleep.
凯奇假装睡着了。
They pretended that they were tourists.
他们假装是旅游者。
Her father tried to pretend that nothing unusual had happened.
她的父亲强装没什么不平常的事发生。
Tom pretended that he didn't know the old man.
汤姆假装不认识那位老人。
用作宾补动词
S+～+pron.+adj.
They pretended themselves innocent.
他们假装自己是无辜的。
1. The children pretend to be different animals dancing to the music.
孩子们扮成不同的动物，随着音乐起舞。
2. We won't pretend we savour the prospect of a month in prison.
我们不会装作我们满心盼望着在监狱中度过一个月。
3. It would be idle to pretend the system is perfect.
假装系统完美无疵是徒劳的。
4. Within this lecture I cannot pretend to deal adequately with dreams.
在这一次讲座中，我不敢自诩能对梦境作透彻的分析。
5. I pretend that things are really okay when they're not.
当情况不好的时候我假装一切顺利。
6. I'm tired of having to pretend all the time.
我讨厌老得装假。