However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the rest of her life that "some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem".
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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假装；伪装；装作
If you pretend that something is the case, you act in a way that is intended to make people believe that it is the case, although in fact it is not.