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    Something pretended looks real, or is offered as real, but is not. A pretended smile is worn for show. A pretended illness is put on so that someone will believe it. The word is mostly used in front of a noun: pretended interest, pretended surprise. It is the -ed form of pretend, doing the job of an adjective. In easy talk people often prefer fake, false, or put-on; pretended is a little more , and it keeps the idea of someone acting a part rather than of a cheap copy. It does not, by itself, mean a person claiming a throne — that special job belongs to .

    假裝的;佯裝的

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組成From pretend + -ed (here the ending makes an adjective: “that is only being acted, not real”).

同家族的字

  • pretendthe verb this adjective is built from
  • pretencethe noun for the act of pretending (US spelling: pretense)
  • pretenderrelated, but a special noun: someone who claims a right to be king or leader

原始詞典資料2 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。

pretendedadj/pɹɪˈtɛndɪd/

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    feigned; counterfeit

    • The room above the bank had been leased to a pretended tradesman.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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