pretense
英 [prɪˈtens]
美 [ˈpriːtens]
n. 借口;假装;伪称
复数:pretenses
COCA.11459
柯林斯词典
- → see:pretence
英英释义
noun
- the act of giving a false appearance
- his conformity was only pretending
- an artful or simulated semblance
- under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive
双语例句
- Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different.
带着宗教或政治面具的偏见和轻蔑也都是一丘之貉。 - Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.
除了巧妙地假装耳聋之外,我一点也没有弄虚作假。 - He made no pretense of caring about our predicament.
他并没有假装关心我们的困境。 - The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
编造藉口、捏造罪名虚构作品或捏造借口的行为。 - Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.
建立在虚假的基础上;虚假的赞美。 - You will be more alluring to a date when you remove your mask and be yourself without the pretense.
你将变得更具吸引力的日期当您删除您的面具,是自己没有的幌子。 - Effectively, you stop all pretense of caring what happens.
可以这么说吧,你完全不去装做关心所发生的事情。 - They immediately burned all their bridges behind them and abandoned any pretense of making a peace with Chiang Kai-shek.
他们立即表明决不妥协,而且抛弃了与蒋介石言和的一切伪装。 - If thy pass for Christians they are guilty of obtaining respect under false pretense.
如果他们作为基督徒而亡,他们就是空背了基督徒的名声犯了虚妄罪。 - It is man's pretense that because he has choice he is free.
人类总是自欺地认为,因为它有选择,所以它是自由的。