pretences

英 [prɪˈtɛnsɪz]

美

n.  假象; 伪装; 虚伪的表现; 妄称; 自称; 标榜
pretence的复数

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 pretense


• N-VAR 假装；做作；矫饰
  Apretenceis an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true.
  1. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad...
     韦兰假装在便笺薄上做笔记。
  2. We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better...
     我们只得一直假装情形在好转。
  3. The government abandoned any pretence of reform.
     政府不再装模作样地进行改革。
• PHRASE 以虚假的借口；以欺骗的手段
  If you do somethingunder false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
  1. I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences...
     我再也不能和一个靠谎言骗我结婚的男人继续生活下去了。
  2. Conrad had been imprisoned for a year for gaining money by false pretences.
     康拉德因为诈骗钱财已经坐了一年的牢。

双语例句

• He obtained money by false pretences.
  他用欺骗手段获取钱财。
• Baishi had no idea that the man got it on false pretences so he could sell fakes in Hong kong.
  他不知道有人骗去他的润格，到香港去卖假画。
• He extorted money from poor farmers under false pretences.
  他讹诈穷苦农民的钱财。
• Perhaps that explains why the disreputable new labour project won three elections, despite taking Britain to war under false pretences and almost bankrupting the country.
  或许正因如此，声名狼藉的“新工党”计划赢得了三次大选尽管工党让英国在没有合理理由的情况下卷入了战争，甚至几乎让英国破产。
• You've brought your old friends out here under false pretences.
  你用虚假的名义把你的那些狐朋狗党带到这里来。
• If you're not going to offer me a job, then you've brought me here under false pretences.
  如果你不是要给我一项工作，那么你是骗我来到这里。
• The thieves got into the house under false pretences, by saying they had come to repair the water taps.
  小偷们捏造口实，说是来修理水龙头的，藉以闯入住宅。
• I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences
  我再也不能和一个靠谎言骗我结婚的男人继续生活下去了。
• The economy will recover its equilibrium only when workers expectations are fulfilled, prices turn out as anticipated, and they no longer sell their labour under false pretences.
  除非劳动者的期望得以满足，物价合情合理，而且他们不会再在受到蒙蔽的情况下出卖自己的劳动力，经济才会恢复平衡。
• Don't listen to his pretences; he is lying.
  别听他的种种藉口，他在撒谎。