He is nothing but a hypocrite, pretending that he knows nothing about it. 他是一个虚伪的人,假装对那件事一无所知。
The young actor pretended to be Hamlet. 那个年轻演员扮演哈姆雷特。
pretended
[ adj ] adopted in order to deceive <adj.all> an assumed namean assumed cheerfulness a fictitious address fictive sympathy a pretended interest a put-on childish voice sham modesty
Pretended \Pre*tend"ed\, a. Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- {Pre*tend"ed*ly}, adv.
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.
He seemed to be what he pretended to be.' At no stage before the BCCI denouement, Mr Clifford said, did he know that his bank was controlled by BCCI.
Kim has said she and another agent pretended to be Japanese tourists and planted the bomb, which was disguised as a radio and a liquor bottle.
Nobody pretended it was an ideal economic order.
An undercover agent for a state commission pretended to be 33 men and cast 33 ballots at 33 voting sites in the citywide local school board elections on May 2, the agent testified Tuesday.
Police said the woman pretended to be pregnant so people would believe the baby was hers.
The Milli Vanilli duo said today they made a "pact with the devil" when they pretended they sang on a hit album, and they contended it was all with the knowledge of their record company.
Dick pretended to ignore my silent paranoia.
Henderson missed a third worker, who pretended to be hit and fell to the ground.
To be fair, Sears' top management has never pretended that the company's recovery would be rapid.
Lord Young's voice adopted a stentorian authority as he pretended to address a defaulter: 'Yes.
They acted out a simple slapstick skit and practiced laughing hysterically when a fellow auditioner pretended to tell a joke.
"We pretended people's problems didn't exist.
'She always says that.' The woman pretended to make a telephone call, shuffled some papers, stamped the ticket, looked up and said boldly: 'One dollar.'
His wife pretended to pat him on the back of the head and, believe you me, watching it slide back up was pretty unnerving,' he says.
Alexander had made a woman of dubious past his queen, and then the childless royal couple pretended that the queen's sister's baby was their own child.
Mrs. Buckey's attorney, Dean Gits, asked her whether the children played games in which they pretended to be movie stars.