pretence的中文翻譯是什麼意思
pretence
n. 假裝，作假; 藉口，口實; 虛偽; 虛飾
pretence的柯林斯釋義
N-VAR假裝；做作；矯飾
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...
韋蘭假裝在便箋薄上做筆記。
We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better...
我們只得一直假裝情形在好轉。
PHRASE以虛假的藉口；以欺騙的手段
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...
我再也不能和一個靠謊言騙我結婚的男人繼續生活下去了。
Conrad had been imprisoned for a year for gaining money by false pretences.
康拉德因為詐騙錢財已經坐了一年的牢。
pretence的英文釋義
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的場景例句
You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.
你不應該以一點點藉口就責罵他.
Julie made a pretence to feel for the key.
她說道.
He didn't like the food, but he made a pretence of eating some of it as he was a guest.
他不喜歡這道菜, 但因為他是客人,所以假裝吃了一些.
But then why persist with the pretence , particularly if it drains a company's efficiency?
此種做法已是妨礙了公司效率,又為什麼要自欺欺人?
She made no pretence , she was perfectly natural.
她一點不矯揉造作, 而是非常自然.