pretense
n. 借口; (无事实根据的)要求; 自称; 假装
1. the act of giving a false appearance;
2. pretending with intention to deceive
3. imaginative intellectual play
4. a false or unsupportable quality
5. an artful or simulated semblance;
Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.
弄虚作假欺骗不了真正的行家.
The senseless senator's pretense of consensus caused a sensation.
愚蠢参议员的与论借口引起了轰动.
Sir, look at this pretense of want of room.
先生, 瞧瞧这条缺少空间的借口吧.
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.
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.
n. 自负,自命不凡,吹牛
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n. 藉口,托辞
n. 虚假,掩饰;虚构,伪装
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n. 骗子;说谎;诡计
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