pretence
[pri'tens, 'pri:t-]
n. 假装;借口;虚伪
同义词
参考例子
1.What you sow——you reap but pretence.
除了借口,你播种什么——就收获什么。
2.Any such pretence on his part would have been simply ridiculous .
他那方面的任何这种冒充,都会是荒谬可笑的。
3.That very morning, not having received the letter she awaited, she had resolved to throw off all pretence of resentment and come.
就在那天早晨,她没有收到期待中的那封信,她决定抛开所有假装的怨恨而回家来。
英文解释
n.
1.a false or unsupportable quality
2.an artful or simulated semblance
3.pretending with intention to deceive
4.imaginative intellectual play
5.the act of giving a false appearance
网络释义
pretence
假装; 托词; 借口,假装,自吹; 自称;
false pretence
虚假藉口 公安; 虚假藉口; 虚假借口;
The Pretence of Knowledge
知识的僭妄; 似乎有知识;
under the pretence of
假为,托...之名。; 以…为借口;
obtain by false pretence
讹词行骗 公安; 讹词行骗;