pretences

英 [prɪˈtɛnsɪz]

美

n.  假象; 伪装; 虚伪的表现; 妄称; 自称; 标榜
pretence的复数

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 pretense


• N-VAR 假装；做作；矫饰
  Apretenceis an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true.
  1. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad...
     韦兰假装在便笺薄上做笔记。
  2. We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better...
     我们只得一直假装情形在好转。
  3. The government abandoned any pretence of reform.
     政府不再装模作样地进行改革。
• PHRASE 以虚假的借口；以欺骗的手段
  If you do somethingunder false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
  1. I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences...
     我再也不能和一个靠谎言骗我结婚的男人继续生活下去了。
  2. Conrad had been imprisoned for a year for gaining money by false pretences.
     康拉德因为诈骗钱财已经坐了一年的牢。

双语例句

• You've brought your old friends out here under false pretences.
  你用虚假的名义把你的那些狐朋狗党带到这里来。
• Baishi had no idea that the man got it on false pretences so he could sell fakes in Hong kong.
  他不知道有人骗去他的润格，到香港去卖假画。
• There are no pretences about him.
  他一点不虚伪。
• One in three workers admit to taking time off under false pretences, according to research.
  一项研究表明：三分之一的员工承认请假时使用假借口。
• If you're not going to offer me a job, then you've brought me here under false pretences.
  如果你不是要给我一项工作，那么你是骗我来到这里。
• She will be open to me and can shed masks and pretences and reveal her true self.
  她将向我敞开心扉并会脱去她的面具和伪装，向我展示她真是的自己。
• We have to drop our pretences and look squarely at schooling as it really is.
  我们必须抛开一切伪装，正视学校教育的真实情况。
• The thieves got into the house under false pretences, by saying they had come to repair the water taps.
  小偷们捏造口实，说是来修理水龙头的，藉以闯入住宅。
• I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences
  我再也不能和一个靠谎言骗我结婚的男人继续生活下去了。
• Don't listen to his pretences; he is lying.
  别听他的种种藉口，他在撒谎。