- 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;