英语释义

• an artful or simulated semblance;

  "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

• imaginative intellectual play

• pretending with intention to deceive

• the act of giving a false appearance;

  "his conformity was only pretending"

• a false or unsupportable quality

片语

Without Pretence不虚伪

no pretence不装饰

false pretence欺诈

preschoolers pretence学前儿童假装

pretence e借口

hollow pretence虚假的托辞

false pretences欺骗

But Pretence除借口

pretence pretense假装

obtain by false pretence讹词行骗

英汉例句

• If Dr Rangel is right, though, pretence may not be the true explanation.

  如果兰赫尔博士是正确的，那么，惺惺作态或许不是真实的解释。

• This pretence of learning Latin lasted as long as I was at these lodgings.

  这种徒有形式的拉丁文学习，在我住在这公寓的期间，一直拖了下去。

• The elections that brought Mr Yar「Adua to office last month were so badly run and marred by such widespread rigging that they lacked even a pretence of democratic plausibility.

  将亚拉杜瓦先生选为总统的选举在上月进行得极不顺利，并有谣言说他们连谈一下伪民主的能力都施展不了。

• Mr Hareton, and the whole set of you, will be good enough to understand that I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer!

  哈里顿先生，还有你们这一帮人，请放明白点：我拒绝你们所表示的一切假仁假义！

• Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows」 houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

  你们这假冒为善的文士和法利赛人有祸了，因为你们侵吞寡妇的家产，假意作很长的祷告，你们要受更重的刑罚

• The failure of austerity and pretence

  紧缩政策和虚伪行为的失败

• She was as far removed from pretence as she was from the posturing virtues that flourish in the credulous world of the drama.

  她没有一点虚饰，也没有一点在这个容易轻信的世界上所流行的那种伪善。

• Even if the Fed had joined Bear shareholders in eking out better terms from JPMorgan, as it should have, the state「s pretence that it could walk away would have convinced nobody.

  即使美联储已经尽了本份，帮贝尔史登从摩根大通那里争取到了更好的收购条款，谁也不相信国家会就此放手不管了。

• He ripped away the mask of pretence which covered their activities.

  他剥掉了遮盖他们行动的假面具。

• Whether Mr Obama is trying to solve the conflict or simply to manage it is hard to say, since the secret of 「managing」 is to maintain the pretence that the peace process will indeed one day produce.

  奥巴马总统到底是要解决这一沖突还是要控制它现在很难说，因为「控制」秘密就是维持和平进程确实有一天会成功的幌子。

• On her advice, I」ve dropped the pretence that my husband is always working.

  根据她的建议，我已经不再假装我的丈夫一直在工作。

• It is the failure of the Russian state to provide even a semblance of justice and the rule of law, or even a pretence of local democracy and accountability.

  而是俄罗斯联邦不能给他们提供那怕只是表面上的公平和法制，或者那怕只是伪装的地方民主和责任。

• But its members yesterday tore up any pretence that people have a right to know what they are eating.

  但是该理事会成员昨日否决了任何人们有权利知道自己吃的是什么的借口。

• He also recognised that the media, which had always made a great pretence of objectivity while embracing a liberal social agenda, could be turned into a Republican weapon.

  他也意识到媒体可以转化为共和党的武器，因为媒体总借客观之名，拥护自由党的社会议程。

• Even so this is an advance on the earlier pretence that Labour, unlike the Tories, was not poised to slam the brakes on spending.

  即使如此，同工党不同，这也将给工党在早期带来优势，他们并不準备对支出加以限制。

• Canada is making little pretence of presuming the suspects「 innocence of these vague allegations.

  加拿大正佯装假定这些嫌疑犯对于这些模棱两可的指控是无辜的。

• Which devour widows」 houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

  他们侵吞寡妇的家产，假意作很长的祷告。这些人要受更重的刑罚。

• Her father is a famous professor, but I can't find any scholarly pretence in him.

  她的父亲是一位有名望的教授，但我从没有她父亲身上看到故作姿态的学者派头。

• In a coruscating note entitled 「the night they killed Santa」, he fretted that any pretence of fiscal probity had been discarded.

  在署题为「那一晚他们杀死了撒旦」的精彩评论中，他焦虑道，不要再谈什么财政刺激经济的方案了。

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