pretense

发音

英 [prɪ'tens]word uk audio image

美 [ˈpriˌtɛns, prɪˈtɛns] word us audio image

  • n.
    借口
    (无事实根据的)要求
    自称
    假装

单词词源

pretense 假象,伪装,标榜

来自pretend,假装,佯装,-s,过去分词格。此处形容词后名词。

双语例句

1. But when lawyers measure themselves against the highest-paid ceos or the richest americans , it 's a pretense . "
但当律师将自己与高薪的CEO或其他有钱的美国人进行比较时,其实是在自吹自擂。”
2. It 's not a good pretense .
它不是一个好借口。
3. Sir , look at this pretense of want of room .
先生,瞧瞧这条缺少空间的借口吧。
4. Jealousy , that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive .
妒忌,一条恶龙,它在保护爱情生命安全的借口下杀死了爱情.
5. One possibility is that he wants to use a temporary crisis as a pretense for engineering a permanent increase in the size and scope of the government .
一种可能是他想把这个暂时的危机当做政府永久扩张规模的借口。

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