核心畫面

Picture someone putting on a face that does not match what is inside: they know the truth, and they behave as if something else were true. The word always has two layers — the real state underneath and the show on top — and it stays neutral about why. A child at a tea party and a witness lying to the police are doing the same structural thing.

可以想成:一個人心裡清楚事實是什麼,卻擺出另一副樣子。這個字永遠有兩層——底下的真實,和上面演出來的那一層——而它本更多收起可以想成:一個人心裡清楚事實是什麼,卻擺出另一副樣子。這個字永遠有兩層——底下的真實,和上面演出來的那一層——而它本身不評斷動機。小孩玩扮家家酒,和一個人裝作沒事把心事藏起來,在結構上做的是同一件事:明知不是這樣,卻照著另一種樣子行動。

From the picture

遊戲裡「假的」

把動詞裡「明知不是真的、照樣照著玩」那一層凝固成形容詞,直接貼在東西上,說這樣東西只存在於遊戲裡。

not real, for play · adjective · B2

Not real or imaginary — used especially by children in games.

假的/假裝的

Also in this word

act as if untrue · verb · B2

To act as if something is true when you know it is not, either to trick people or just for fun.

假裝

falsely claim · verb · B2

To claim that something is true or that you can do something, when it is not — often used with 'not'.

佯稱/自稱

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

pretendverb/pɹəˈtɛnd/

  • 1

    To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.

    • You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.
    • You don't have to pretend to like the soup.
  • 2

    To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.

    • She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.
    • She didn't have a real piano to play, so she just pretended.
  • 3

    To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.

    • She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.
    • He pretended an air of indifference that he'd never assumed before.
  • 4

    formalTo lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).

    • The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.
    • Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
  • 5

    obsoleteTo hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

    • Lest that too heavenly form, pretended / To hellish falsehood, snare them.
  • 6

    obsoleteTo intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.

    • Such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state.
  • 7

    obsoleteTo hold before one; to extend.

    • Pastorella […] Was by the Captaine all this while defended, / Who, minding more her safety then himselfe, / His target alwayes over her pretended[…].
    • But had thoſe vvits the vvonders of their dayes, / Or that ſvveete Teian Poet [Anacreon] vvhich did ſpend / His plenteous vaine in ſetting forth her [Venus's] prayſe, / Seene but a glims of this, vvhich I pretend, / Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, […]

pretendadj/pɹəˈtɛnd/

  • 1

    Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.

    • As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.

pretendnoun/pɹəˈtɛnd/

  • 1

    informalThe act of engaging in pretend play.

    • We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。