pretence
英['priːtens]
美[pri'tens, 'pri:t-]
- 假装； 借口
词态变化
复数: pretences;
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。
- 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。
- 3. The government abandoned any pretence of reform.
- 政府不再装模作样地进行改革。
- 4. Their friendliness was only pretence.
- 他们的友善态度只不过是装出来的。
- 5. The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.
- 那学说号称最具有科学基础.