英语释义

• an artful or simulated semblance;

  "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

• something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

片语

pretext n借口

on the pretext of以...为借口

pretext factor前文本因素

seek pretext找借口

under the pretext of假借

pretext t借口

pretext shield挡箭牌

weak pretext经不起推敲的托词

find a pretext for为

use as a pretext假托

英汉例句

• thus, the slide in the greenback need not prompt every investor into urgent action, but it is an ideal pretext for asking whether you are globally diversified.

  因此，美元的下跌不见得促使所有投资者都采取紧急行动，但这是自问是否对资产进行了国际化多元配置的理想借口。

• you「ll notice that the earlier scenarios involve having a pretext or talking to people who have to talk with you.

  你会留意到，早先的场景都涉及到借口或是跟那些不得不与你说话的人聊天。

• when the country experienced its worst floods in living memory, it was used as a pretext to increase the bombings.

  当巴勒斯坦经历了老人们所见的最严重的洪水时，这被作为借口以增加轰炸。

• arab leaders have long practice of using israel as a pretext for maintaining states of emergency at home and putting off reform.

  阿拉伯领导人将以色列作为在其国内维持紧急状态并拖延改革的借口，这一做法由来已久。

• all the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another;

  所有的权力都是社会赋予它的，并且它时不时地用一个接又一个的借口来罚没充公。

• and some of the anxiety about mining stocks is merely a pretext to preach the merits of actively managed funds, with higher fees.

  而对矿业股的忧虑，有些不过是一个借口，为了鼓吹收取更高费用的、积极管理的基金的价值。

• when i resisted, they beat me with anything at hand,「 said munni, who had managed to leave her home after three months only on the pretext of visiting a doctor.

  如果我反抗，他们随手抄起东西就打我。”三个月后，以看医生为借口，穆尼才获準出家门。

• no man of vice can be condemned unless he ceases to look upon vice as a pretext and turns it into a goal.

  我们不能去责难一个邪恶的人，除非他不再将邪恶看作借口而是将其变为最终目标。

• some women furtively stash away their husband」s money over the years on the pretext that it would be of some assistance if he has to die first.

  有些女人会长年私藏丈夫的一些钱财,并借口说如果丈夫先走一步的话,这些钱财就能派上用场。

• it marked an aggressive escalation in iran's enrichment programme and its only civilian pretext to fuel the reactor.

  这表明伊朗的浓缩计划将进一步升级，民用只不过是为反应堆提供燃料的一个借口。

• the anc’s powerful national executive committee took this as the pretext to call on the increasingly unpopular mr mbeki to step down as the country’s president.

  非国大强大的国家执行委员会把这件事作为借口来要求名声渐衰的姆贝基从总统宝座上下来。

• the first crash served as the pretext for the swiftest genocide in history. the second silenced its most dogged witness, a tiny american lady with silver hair.

  前者成为历史上最迅速的种族灭绝的一个借口，而后者却令它最坚韧的目击者，一位瘦小的，满头银发的美国女士归于沉寂。

• though the pension reform does not touch students, it has become a touchstone for general grievances and a pretext for troublemakers to join in.

  虽然养老金改革并未触及学生，也同样成为各种抱怨的试金石和寻衅滋事的好借口。

• their fears have been stoked by claims made by the government on monday that 120 of its forces had been killed by 」armed gangs「 in the town, widely read as pretext for further crackdowns.

  政府周一宣称有120名士兵遭该城「武装暴民」杀害的声明再次加深他们的忧虑，这被广泛解读为是进一步镇压的借口。

• the fuzzy-headed animals are just a means to an end, an excuse and a pretext to tramp through a pristine rain forest where the air is cool, the sun warm and the rivers evian-clear.

  这个有着毛绒绒的头的可爱动物仅仅是我们来到原始森林的借口。这里空气清新，阳光温暖，河水清澈见底。

• one must not push too far in descent under pretext of a return to reason.

  不要借口恢复理智，而在下坡路上滑过了头。

• during the election campaign, mr sócrates accused mr passos coelho of using the imf/eu bail-out as a pretext for putting forward 「the most radical right-wing programme ever presented in portugal」.

  在竞选活动期间，苏格拉底指责科埃略以imf和欧盟的纾困计划为借口来推行「葡萄牙有史以来最激进的右翼政策」。

• iran, they suspect, is his pretext for putting off peacemaking with the palestinians, while he haggles with america over 「natural growth」 in jewish settlements in the occupied west bank.

  他们推测，伊朗是他在与美国就约旦河西岸犹太定居点自然增长率讨价还价时推迟与巴勒斯坦调停的借口。

• they must allow for the truth and prevent the use of 」national security" as a pretext for suppressing embarrassing news.

  他们必须允许事实存在，并防止「国家安全」作为借口来压制处于尴尬境地的新闻。

• my crush, addie, and i have run out of things to talk about so i will pretext to avoid any awkward silences.

  我的恋人，安迪和我已经没有什么可谈的了，所以我要找个借口来避免尴尬的沉默。

相似词

pretense借口；虚假；炫耀；自吹（等于pretence）

cover覆盖；代替；敷衍；给…投保；

sham(Sham)人名；(英、印、毛里塔)沙姆

excuse原谅；为……申辩；準许……离开；给……免去；作为借口；请求宽恕

color颜色；肤色；颜料；脸色

alibi辩解；找托辞开脱

cover覆盖；代替；敷衍；给…投保；

profession职业，专业；声明，宣布，表白

sham(Sham)人名；(英、印、毛里塔)沙姆

out熄灭的；盛开的；面市的；出局的；不能被接受的；过时的；不準确的；打算做……的；被公开的

excuse原谅；为……申辩；準许……离开；给……免去；作为借口；请求宽恕

pretense借口；虚假；炫耀；自吹（等于pretence）