pretense
[pri'tens, 'pri:t-]
n. 借口;虚假;炫耀;自吹(等于pretence)
同义词
参考例子
1.The two-part event featured a day-time "Order" art and product showcase followed by a party at night under the pretense of "Chaos".
分为两部分活动功能的一整天时间“订单”艺术和产品展示后,晚上一方当事人的幌子下,“混沌”。
2.The furthest distance in the world is not, pretending you have never been in my heart, but pretense never care about you on purpose.
世界上最遥远的距离,不是明明无法抵挡这股想念,却还得故意装作丝毫没有把你放在心里。
3.Yes, Commander. I fear that they have seen through our strategy. There is in fact a word for it in their language-bluff. It means to mislead or intimidate through pretense.
是的,大人。我担心他们已经看穿了我们的计划。事实上,在他们的语言里有一个词叫虚张声势。就是说通过假象来误导或者胁迫对方。
英文解释
n.
1.the act of giving a false appearance
2.pretending with intention to deceive
3.imaginative intellectual play
4.a false or unsupportable quality
5.an artful or simulated semblance
网络释义
pretense
虚伪; 借口; 幌子; 借口(带有虚假或欺诈的要求,明指或暗指作为真假控制);
geranium pretense
天竺葵;
Trifolium pretense
红三叶; 红豆叶;
false pretense
欺诈; 眼角眉梢;
legal pretense
法律上的虚构;