英语释义

• pretending with intention to deceive

• a false or unsupportable quality

• the act of giving a false appearance;

  "his conformity was only pretending"

• imaginative intellectual play

• an artful or simulated semblance;

  "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

片语

pretense e借口

a pretense故作姿态

blind(Blind)人名；(法)布兰；(德、瑞典)布林德

pretense context假装情境

excuse原谅；为……申辩；準许……离开；给……免去；作为借口；请求宽恕

geranium pretense天竺葵

pretense theory假装理论

display展览的；陈列用的

No Pretense不虚饰

False Pretense欺诈

Trifolium pretense红三叶

英汉例句

• Time to throw all pretense aside, and just KILL YOU!

  是时候抛开所有借口，然后杀死你了！

• To save the agenda for which he was elected, he must give up the pretense of being a postpartisan professorial president and start acting like an Oval Office tiger.

  为了拯救自己的选择，他必须放弃做一个超然于党派争斗之外的教授总统的幻想，转变成一个兇猛的总统。

• The pretense of a useless shell.

  一片无用的贝壳的伪装。

• Linda’s mother had just taken out an ad in a local newspaper asking readers to send Linda get-well and sweet-sixteen cards. Linda was disgusted by the pretense that her health would improve.

  琳达的母亲在一家当地报纸上发了封广告，请求读者给琳达寄去早日康复与16岁生日快乐的祝福卡片，可是琳达非常反感这些说她会康复的假话。

• Rational partions who needs such pretense will often end up corrupting in responsiveness for reason.

  理性回应需要这样的借口去,结束理性回应的恶化。

• Absence of pretense or artificiality, full creative intent unforced.

  没有虚伪做作，充满无限的创造意图。

• 「Under the pretense of progress, morality is collapsing,」 he wrote in his confiscated diary.

  在被没收的日记中，他写道：「在进步的面具下，道德正在沦丧。」

• Moreover, many might argue that the 「pretense」 of objectivity is just that, a pretense and an ideal.

  另外，许多人还认为，「假装」客观性本身就是装假和不切实际的。

• A very effective campaign succeeds in obscuring the source of conflict over major issues of reform with the pretense that it is ideology rather than campaign cash that divides us.

  一场有效的竞选的成功秘诀是：隐藏改革重大议题上的根源，而给大家造成一个假象：我们的分歧在于意识领域，而非献金多寡。

• What sun there is this time of year shines weakly, halfheartedly through the white gauze of clouds, offering not even the slightest pretense of warmth.

  一年中此时的太阳发出微弱的光线，懒洋洋地透过薄薄的云层，没有一丝暖意。

• I make no pretense that I can predict how long it will take for the apple to fall.

  我并不是说我能预测，苹果掉落的时间。

• The window was open and I faced it, making a pretense of studying the landscape.

  我对着窗户，假装在欣赏风景。

• But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.

  但这个解决之道将代表着对古老的天主教教条的完全推翻，而这将是对教皇的不可更改性的大大的不恭。

• The week had been filled with meetings and bluster, the zealous singing exchanges of her business, the pretense of certainty where in fact there was none at all.

  过去的一周她的生活被会议间富于激情的神侃和看上去已确定的假象填满，而一切其实都没有定数。

• Using as little pretense as possible (ideally none), ask the person if he or she would like to get together for a cup of coffee or do something similarly casual.

  在问对方是否愿意出来喝杯咖啡或做一些其他类似的事情的时候，尽量不要用虚伪的借口(理想中应该是一点虚假也没有)。

• Yet, in most cases, those giving out grant money want at least the pretense of a long-term research plan.

  但大多情况下，出资方总是需要看到一个长期的研究计划。

• Developmental psychologists have long been interested in children's appreciation of the distinction between pretense and reality.

  发展心理学家一直对儿童如何区分虚幻和现实很感兴趣。

相似词

pomposity自大；炫耀；浮夸

gas气体；[矿业] 瓦斯；汽油；毒气

fanfaronade吹牛；夸口

hotad 热；紧迫地

braggadocio自夸，吹牛；吹牛大王

boasting自夸；拥有（可以自豪的特点）（boast 的现在分词）

side(Side)人名；(英)赛德

pretentiousness自负；狂妄；自命不凡

bragging夸口

air通风

peacockery虚荣；虚饰

vaunting吹嘘，夸耀（vaunt 的现在分词）

gasconade夸口，吹牛

motive发动的；成为动机的

pretension自负；要求；主张；借口；骄傲

pretext以…为借口

concoction混合；调合；调合物

falsification伪造；歪曲；[审计] 篡改；证明是假

pretending伪称的；乔饰的

imposture欺诈，欺骗；冒牌

show显示；表演；炫耀

act行为；假装；某种行为（或常规等）；法令；判决书；会议记录；（戏剧等的）幕；表演；演出团体

varnish装饰，粉饰；在…上涂清漆；使…有光泽

fable编寓言；虚构

affectation做作；矫揉造作；假装

fabrication制造，建造；装配；伪造物

obscuration遮蔽，昏暗；晦涩；掩星

masquerade伪装，化装；冒充

falsead 欺诈地

fantasy耽于幻想；奏幻想曲（等于phantasy）

cover覆盖；代替；敷衍；给…投保；

gloss光彩；用以产生光泽的物质；光泽涂料；假象；注释

fiction小说；虚构，编造；谎言

colors渲染（color的三单形式）；涂颜色于

veil(Veil)人名；(法)韦伊；(德)法伊尔

veneer胶合；虚饰；给…镶以饰片

disguise伪装；假装；用作伪装的东西

simulation仿真；模拟；模仿；假装

facade正面；表面；外观

invention发明；发明物；虚构；发明才能

figment虚构的事；臆造的事物

camouflage伪装，掩饰

mask掩饰；戴面具；化装

cloak（尤指旧时的）披风，斗篷；遮盖物；伪装，幌子；（复数）衣帽间，行李寄存处，盥洗室；（承担的）主要角色

fraud(Fraud)人名；(法)弗罗

delusion迷惑，欺骗；错觉；幻想

ruse(Ruse)人名；(罗、塞)鲁塞；(英)鲁斯

falsehood说谎；假话；不真实；错误的信仰

fake(Fake) （印）费克（人名）

humbug行骗

humbuggery诈欺；欺骗

wile诡计，阴谋

hoax捉弄，欺骗

fib撒小谎

artifice(Artifice)人名；(葡)阿蒂菲塞

trickery欺骗；诡计；奸计

charade(Charade) （加、法、美）谢拉德（人名）

sham(Sham)人名；(英、印、毛里塔)沙姆

trick(Trick)人名；(英)特里克

deception欺骗，欺诈；骗术

swindle(Swindle) （美、英、澳、加）斯温德尔（人名）

lie(Lie)人名；(罗、挪、瑞典)利；(中)李(普通话·威妥玛)

profession职业，专业；声明，宣布，表白