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
- I pretense to know what I don't know.
我假装知道我不知道的东西。 - Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.
建立在虚假的基础上；虚假的赞美。 - He made no pretense of caring about our predicament.
他并没有假装关心我们的困境。 - I was compelled to make a pretense of worshiping her God, which was her exaction for my keep.
我就得被迫装着崇拜她的上帝，这是她为哺育我对我提出的要求。 - 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。 - I spoke to you in cautious tones, you answered me with no pretense.
我小心翼翼地跟你谈话，你用坦荡和真诚作答。 - It seems likely that, sooner or later, Google will have to drop the pretense.
看起来，谷歌早晚会要卸下伪装。 - He collected money under the pretense of patriotism.
他假藉爱国募集金钱。 - The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.
讽刺文学对人类的各种虚伪行为进行了精妙的嘲弄。 - But we're just living in the pretense of a marriage, responsibility.
但现在我们只是假装维系着婚姻，责任。