pretence 词态变化
复数: pretences;
pretence 中文词源
pretence 假象，伪装，标榜来自pretense的拼写变体。
pretence 英文释义
- 1. a false or unsupportable quality
- 2. an artful or simulated semblance;
- "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
- 3. pretending with intention to deceive
- 4. imaginative intellectual play
- 5. the act of giving a false appearance;
- "his conformity was only pretending"
pretence 双语例句
- 1. Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears.
- 她假装点蜡烛，避开他消失了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The playwright cocooned himself in a world of pretence.
- 这个剧作家与世隔绝，生活在一个虚幻的世界里。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The government abandoned any pretence of reform.
- 政府不再装模作样地进行改革。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Their friendliness was only pretence.
- 他们的友善态度只不过是装出来的。
来自《权威词典》
- 5. The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.
- 那学说号称最具有科学基础.
来自《简明英汉词典》
pretence 实用场景例句
- Their friendliness was only pretence.
- 他们的友善态度只不过是装出来的。
牛津词典
- By the end of the evening she had abandoned all pretence of being interested.
- 到晚会结束时，她已将假装的兴趣抛得一干二净。
牛津词典
- He made no pretence of great musical knowledge.
- 他未敢妄称音乐知识丰富。
牛津词典
- She was unable to keep up the pretence that she loved him.
- 她无法继续假装爱他了。
牛津词典
- a woman with some pretence to beauty
- 自诩有几分姿色的女人
牛津词典
- I make no pretence to being an expert on the subject.
- 我不敢自诩为这方面的专家。
牛津词典
- Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad...
- 韦兰假装在便笺薄上做笔记。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.
- 你不应该以一点点借口就责骂他.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Julie made a pretence to feel for the key.
- 她说道.
期刊摘选
- He didn't like the food, but he made a pretence of eating some of it as he was a guest.
- 他不喜欢这道菜, 但因为他是客人,所以假装吃了一些.
《简明英汉词典》
- But then why persist with the pretence , particularly if it drains a company's efficiency?
- 此种做法已是妨碍了公司效率,又为什麽要自欺欺人?
期刊摘选
- She made no pretence , she was perfectly natural.
- 她一点不矫揉造作, 而是非常自然.
期刊摘选
- What about your not paying with a pretence of bad quality?
- 你们收到货后以质量为由不付款 怎么办 ?
期刊摘选
- Billy made a pretence to be ill.
- 比利装病.
期刊摘选
- With one remark he had ripped away the mask of pretence which covered their activities.
- 他一针见血地揭穿了他们掩饰自己的伪装.
期刊摘选
- His religion was a mere pretence.
- 他信教纯属假充样子.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Isn't long enough for all that lying and pretence.
- 是不是足够长的一切撒谎和幌子.
期刊摘选
- There is no pretence that qualifying was a success.
- 这个排位一点也不成功.
期刊摘选
- The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.
- 那学说号称最具有科学基础.
《简明英汉词典》
- He wished to be relieved of his post on the pretence of ill health.
- 他想托病辞职.
辞典例句
- The family depended on his ability to wangle a few dollars occasionally . With this money, they would eat well and dress well for a while , making a pretence of affluence.
- 一家人全靠他在外面讹个钱,诈个财, 吃点好的,穿点好的, 装门面.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- His way of life is all pretence.
- 他的生活方式全是假装.
期刊摘选
- Which devour widows'houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
- 他们侵吞寡妇的家产 、 假意作很长的祷告.这些人要受更重的刑罚.
期刊摘选
- They are making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.
- 他们板起面孔, 像演员一样,装出大公无私的样子.
辞典例句
- Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.
- 不消三十秒,所有借口全成了多余的废物.
英汉文学
- Arthur believed that this was just a pretence.
- 阿瑟认为这仅仅是一种掩饰.
辞典例句
