pretense
英 美['prit?ns]
- n. 借口；虛假；炫耀；自吹（等于pretence）
實用場景例句
- Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.
- 弄虛作假欺騙不了真正的行家.
辭典例句
- The senseless senator's pretense of consensus caused a sensation.
- 愚蠢參議員的與論借口引起了轟動.
期刊摘選
- Sir, look at this pretense of want of room.
- 先生, 瞧瞧這條缺少空間的借口吧.
期刊摘選
- Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different.
- 帶著宗教或政治面具的偏見和輕蔑也都是一丘之貉.
期刊摘選
- I spoke to you in cautious tones, you answered me with no pretense.
- 我小心翼翼地跟你談話, 你用坦蕩和真誠作答.
期刊摘選
- They gave up the pretense of dancing, and her arms went around his neck.
- 他們放棄了假裝跳舞, 她雙臂抱住他的脖子.
英漢文學 - 廊橋遺夢
- You can't keep up the pretense any longer.
- 你無法繼續偽裝下去了.
辭典例句
- He made a pretense of affection [ of being affectionate ] .
- 他假裝有 情.
辭典例句
- There was not even a pretense of a free press, freedom of assembly or free speech.
- 甚至連表面的出版自由、集會自由和言論自由都沒有.
期刊摘選
- What difference asas in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed?
- 那有什么妨礙 呢 ?無論如何, 或是假意,或是誠心, 終究是宣傳了基督.
期刊摘選
- He cheated me under ( the ) pretense of friendship.
- 他 假借 友誼欺騙我.
辭典例句
- An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
- 虛構的作品或托詞,并不代表是真實的,而是被編造出來的.
期刊摘選
- Mk. 12:40 Who devour the widows'a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater judgment.
- 可十二40他們侵吞寡婦的家產,假意作很長的禱告. 這些人要受更重的刑罰.
期刊摘選
- It is merely a pretense.
- 這只是托詞而已.
《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- But I made myself smile so I could GREet my little daughter a Pretense of happiness.
- 但我擦擦眼淚,強擠出笑臉,要讓自己在女兒面前露出喜悅之情.
期刊摘選
- Red Clover ( trifolium pretense ) helps restore and balance hormonal function.
- 恢復和平衡內分泌功能和子宮孕育.
期刊摘選
- The window was open and I faced it, making a pretense of studying the landscape.
- 窗開著,我面對著她, 假裝在研究地形.
期刊摘選
- I have [ make ] no pretense to genius.
- 我不自命為天才.
辭典例句
- The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.
- 諷刺文學對人類的各種虛偽行為進行了精妙的嘲諷.
期刊摘選
- The house was decorated without any pretense of showiness.
- 這房子的裝飾一點不帶顯眼的虛飾.
期刊摘選
- The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
- 虛構作品或捏造借口的行為.
期刊摘選
- He made a pretense of asking for my advice.
- 他裝模作樣地向我請教.
期刊摘選
- The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.
- 奧格爾維突然粗魯地沖口而出, 所有假裝的和藹態度全沒有了.
期刊摘選
- Absence of pretense artificiality, full creative intent unforced.
- 沒有虛偽做作,充滿無限的創造意圖.
期刊摘選
- U.S. policymakers longer make any pretense that the country's fiscal situation is anything but troubling.
- 美國決策者再也不能給國家令人不安的財政狀況找借口了.
期刊摘選
- The window was open and I faced making a pretense of studying the landscape.
- 車窗是開著的,我面朝窗外,假裝欣賞風景.
期刊摘選
- But pretense may bring an annoyance to people.
- 但是,倘若故意裝可愛就會讓人生厭了.
期刊摘選
- Sometimes the best offense is a ghoulish pretense.
- 令人毛骨悚然的偽裝有時是最好的攻擊手段.
期刊摘選
- A canny bureaucratic infighter , Moorer made as pretense of academic subtlety.
- 穆勒是一個機警的官場角逐者, 但他并不裝作高深莫測.
辭典例句