pretence的中文翻译是什么意思
pretence
n. 假装，作假; 借口，口实; 虚伪; 虚饰
pretence的柯林斯释义
N-VAR假装；做作；矫饰
A pretence is an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true.
Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad...
韦兰假装在便笺薄上做笔记。
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。
PHRASE以虚假的借口；以欺骗的手段
If you do something under false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
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。
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。
pretence的英文释义
Noun
1. a false or unsupportable quality
2. an artful or simulated semblance;
- under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
3. pretending with intention to deceive
4. imaginative intellectual play
5. the act of giving a false appearance;
- his conformity was only pretending
pretence的场景例句
You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.
你不应该以一点点借口就责骂他.
Julie made a pretence to feel for the key.
她说道.
He didn't like the food, but he made a pretence of eating some of it as he was a guest.
他不喜欢这道菜, 但因为他是客人,所以假装吃了一些.
But then why persist with the pretence , particularly if it drains a company's efficiency?
此种做法已是妨碍了公司效率,又为什麽要自欺欺人?
She made no pretence , she was perfectly natural.
她一点不矫揉造作, 而是非常自然.