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PRETEND

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pretend verb A. tranzitiv

1. a simula; a face pe;

to pretend love to smb. a simula dragoste faţă de cineva, a se preface că iubeşte pe cineva.

2. a pretexta, a întrebuinţa ca pretext.

3. a pretinde, a reclama, a revendica.

pretend verb B. intranzitiv

1. (to) a tinde, a aspira (la).

2. (to) a avea pretenţie (la).

3. a se preface, a se preface cinstit.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

You ain't poor, you know, Charley, as you pretend.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I shall lie down and pretend to sleep, lest Jonathan have added anxiety about me when he returns.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

If! Do you then pretend to be ignorant of it?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

But why should this man pretend to be his own brother?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I pretended to be worse than I really was, and desired leave to take the fresh air of the sea, with a page, whom I was very fond of, and who had sometimes been trusted with me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Now do you lie down close by the child, and pretend to be watching it, and I will come out of the wood and run away with it; you must run after me as fast as you can, and I will let it drop; then you may carry it back, and they will think you have saved their child, and will be so thankful to you that they will take care of you as long as you live.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He presently added, with a smile, I do not pretend to fix on times or places, but I must tell you that I have good reason to believe your little friend will soon hear of something to her advantage.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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