| 词汇 | pretend |
| 词源 | pretend [LME] The basic idea behind pretend is that you claim to be something that you are not. It comes from Latin praetendere ‘to claim, put forward’, from prae ‘before’ and tendere ‘stretch, hold out’. |
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