-Why do you even date her, anyway?
-She’s hot. It’s a guy thing.
-But she’s so awful.
-Hey, you know, you could use the front door. And Mom can’t see me. She thinks I’m staying at Dad’s. Dad thinks I’m at Mom’s. In two days they both think I’m going away to school. That is the beauty of divorce.
-Where are you going?
-London for a couple of weeks. Yeah, my band got a slot in a music festival there.
-OK, what are you gonna do about school?
-Yeah, I was kind of hoping you could help me with that. Could you just, like, pretend to be Mom, call Illyria, tell them I’m sick? Something that sounds like it would last for two weeks, like mad cow.
pretend， assume， affect， simulate的區(qū)別
這些動詞都指采用虛偽的或誤導的表象。
1.Pretend 經(jīng)常暗示一種徒勞地或明顯地去愚弄或欺騙：
“My bedmate pretended to be asleep” (George W. Cable).
“我的枕邊人假裝睡著了” （喬治·W·凱布爾）。
2.Assume 有可能——但是并不必然地——意味著不誠實，不誠心或欺騙：
“Assume a virtue, if you have it not” (Shakespeare).
“假如你沒有美德的話，那就假裝你有美德” （莎士比亞）。
3.Affect 暗示了一種出于個人喜好或想要留下好印象而有意顯示出某種神態(tài)的努力：
“He affects the disdainful petulance of a rock star” (Annalyn Swan).
“他假裝出搖滾明星般倔傲的任性” （阿那林·斯旺）。
4.Simulate 強調(diào)外表的假裝或近似現(xiàn)實的形式：
“A . . . verdant scum upon the surface of deep pools simulated the turf that had been removed” (John Lothrop Motley). The remaining terms—feign, fake, and counterfeit —all imply at least a measure of deliberate sham.
“深潭表面上青綠的浮藻給人一種假象，好象草地被轉移了” （約翰·洛恩羅普莫·特利）。?

-Picture this: We’re at the country club, they call your name, and you emerge in this.
-No. Sorry, Mom. I have a strict no-ruffles policy.
-Sometimes I just think you just might as well be your brother.
-You want me to turn you into your brother?
-That’s right. I’m going to Illyria as Sebastian. I’ll make the boys soccer team, and in 12 days beat the Cornwall boys team.
-You’ve taken too many soccer balls to the head.
-You know I can do it, Paul.
-Except for the voice, mannerisms, the breasts, the mentality and...
-It doesn’t matter. Nobody at Illyria has even met Sebastian.
-They won’t know the difference.
-They’ll know he’s a girl.
Turn的短語
in turn 輪流，依次
turn off 關掉，關閉；拐彎，使轉變方向
turn into v. 變成；進入
turn on 打開，發(fā)動
turn out 生產(chǎn)；結果是；關掉；出動；驅逐
turn over 移交給；翻閱；把…翻過來；發(fā)動；營業(yè)額達到；反復考慮
turn left v. 向左轉
turn right v. 向右轉
turn around 船只留港
turn in 交上；歸還；拐入；告發(fā)；[口]上床睡覺
turn back 往回走；阻擋；翻回到
turn up 出現(xiàn)；發(fā)生；開大；發(fā)現(xiàn)；卷起；使仰臥
turn out to be 結果是；原來是
turn down 拒絕；向下轉折
turn from 對…感到厭惡
your turn 輪到你；該你了
turn away 避開；解雇；不準…入內(nèi)；走開；轉過臉
turn round 轉身，轉向；歸航；回車道；轉變
by turns 輪流；交替?