pretences
n. 假裝( pretence的名詞複數 ); 作假; 自命; 自稱
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。
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。
We have to drop our pretences and look squarely at schooling as it really is.
我們必須拋開一切偽裝,正視學校教育的真實情況。
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。
There are no pretences about him.
他一點不虛偽.
I hate such shallow false pretences.
我討厭這種膚淺,虛偽的做作.
He is always making pretences.
他總是找藉口.