Mum made as if to offer everyone more bread, and then seemed to change her mind.
妈妈做了个样子, 好像要给每个人更多的面包,然后似乎改变了主意。
西南联大英文教本
How casually introductions are made, as if it were the easiest thing in the world to make two human beings acquainted!
介绍是多么随意, 仿佛让两个人相识是世界上最容易的事情!
冰与火之歌:群鸦的盛宴(中英对照)
" You read too much and fight too little, " Nute said. " Your blood is milk" . But the Reader made as if he had not heard.
" 你书看得太多,仗打得太少," 纽特说," 你身上流的不是血而是奶。" 读书人根本不予理会。
Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄
He approached once more, and made as if he would seize the fragile being; but, shrinking back, Linton clung to his cousin, and implored her to accompany him, with a frantic importunity that admitted no denial.