They pretend to live a traditional lifestyle, wear traditional clothes and live in traditional houses in order to attract tourists.

为了吸引游客，他们假装过着传统的生活方式，穿着传统的衣服，住在传统的房子里。

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Then they pretend to laugh.

然后他们假装笑。

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But Italians are less pious than they pretend.

但意大利人并不像他们装得那样虔诚。

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Suppose, whether these are actually your payoffs or not, pretend they are for now.

不管这是不是真的就是你们收益,假设这就是你们的收益

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You could think of these as two companies producing bottled water and now we're going to get hundreds of letters saying not all bottled waters are the same, especially from Italians and the French, but never mind. Let's just pretend that they are.

把他们想象成两家瓶装水厂商吧,我估计我们会收到数百封信件,告诉我说不是所有瓶装水都是一样的,尤其是从意大利和法国寄过来的那些,无所谓了,就把它们想象成是同质的吧

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They pretend to work and have neither the time nor the incentive to start businesses or acquire skills.

ECONOMIST: Gulf economies

Then when they grow back to where they were, they pretend it's progress.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

What worries me is that the Democrats aren't what they pretend to be.

CNN: Commentary: Liberals let loose on Palin and Joe the Plumber