pretense
英 [prɪˈtens]
美 [ˈpriːtens]
n. 借口；假装；伪称
复数：pretenses
COCA.11459
柯林斯词典
- → see:pretence
英英释义
noun
- the act of giving a false appearance
- his conformity was only pretending
- an artful or simulated semblance
- under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive
双语例句
- These adjectives mean genuine, honest, and devoid of hypocrisy or pretense.
这些形容词都是真实、诚实、不虚伪或不伪饰的意思。 - You will be more alluring to a date when you remove your mask and be yourself without the pretense.
你将变得更具吸引力的日期当您删除您的面具，是自己没有的幌子。 - Because of this, their fantasies can confidently be brought to life through fiction without any pretense or unnecessary apologies.
所以，他们的幻想可以理直气壮地以虚拟的姿态现身，不需要任何借口或累赘的解释。 - Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.
除了巧妙地假装耳聋之外，我一点也没有弄虚作假。 - Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different.
带着宗教或政治面具的偏见和轻蔑也都是一丘之貉。 - I spoke to you in cautious tones, you answered me with no pretense.
我小心翼翼地跟你谈话，你用坦荡和真诚作答。 - They immediately burned all their bridges behind them and abandoned any pretense of making a peace with Chiang Kai-shek.
他们立即表明决不妥协，而且抛弃了与蒋介石言和的一切伪装。 - The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.
讽刺文学对人类的各种虚伪行为进行了精妙的嘲弄。 - It seems likely that, sooner or later, Google will have to drop the pretense.
看起来，谷歌早晚会要卸下伪装。 - It is man's pretense that because he has choice he is free.
人类总是自欺地认为，因为它有选择，所以它是自由的。