Because it cost a dime to make it pitch back and forth, we had to sit on the horse once a week and to pretend we were riding.

要让马前后摇动起来得投进一角硬币，因此，我们只好每周一次干坐在马上，假装骑马来过过瘾。

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Indeed, the etiquette in this situation calls for you to ape his behavior — take out your smartphone and pretend to check all the things going on in your life.

确实，碰到这样的场合，礼数会告诉你去模仿他的行为——同样掏出你的手机，假装查看上面发生的所有事情。

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I don't like him, and it would be dishonest of me to pretend otherwise.

我不喜欢他，如果假装喜欢，那就是我不诚实了。

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To write about your life and to pretend that you're communicating the memory of what happened to you--your grief, your private grief-- doesn't contain that universalizing move that fiction, by its very essence, contains.

把你的生活呈现出来,假装成在描述发生在你身上的事，你的不幸，你个人的不幸-,不包括小说根本性的一般化处理，你看，你可以回忆我们在《尤利西斯》的广告。

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Let's pretend that at work, your boss gives you too much work and not enough time to finish it.

假设你上班的时候，老板给了你太多的工作，你没有足够的时间来完成它。

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OK, now, we're going to look at the internal energy, and we're going to pretend that it is explicitly a function of temperature and volume.

好，我们接下来看看内能，我们假设,它是温度和体积的函数。

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They all tilt the playing field and to pretend otherwise is silly.

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One of the oddest things about the UN climate process is the way it virtually forces countries with diametrically opposed interests to huddle close and pretend to be friends.

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Physically fearless and noble without limit, he has only one flaw: He knows that he is a great man, and refuses to pretend otherwise.

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