pretences
n. 假装( pretence的名词复数 ); 作假; 自命; 自称
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。
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。
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。
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。
There are no pretences about him.
他一点不虚伪.
I hate such shallow false pretences.
我讨厌这种肤浅,虚伪的做作.
He is always making pretences.
他总是找借口.