pretense

1. → see: pretence

1. It is merely a pretense.
   这只是托词而已。
2. It seems likely that, sooner or later, Google will have to drop the pretense.
   看起来，谷歌早晚会要卸下伪装。
3. 678. The senseless senator's pretense of consensus caused a sensation.
   678.愚蠢参议员的舆论借口引起了轰动。
4. But I made myself smile so I could GREet my little daughter with a Pretense of happiness.
   但我擦擦眼泪，强挤出笑容，要让自己在女儿面前露出喜悦之情。
5. Absence of pretense or artificiality, full creative intent unforced.
   没有虚伪做作，充满无限的创造意图。
6. I spoke to you in cautious tones, you answered me with no pretense.
   我小心翼翼地跟你谈话，你用坦荡和真诚作答。
7. I was compelled to make a pretense of worshiping her God, which was her exaction for my keep.
   我就得被迫装着崇拜她的上帝，这是她为哺育我对我提出的要求。
8. Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.
   除了巧妙地假装耳聋之外，我一点也没有弄虚作假。
9. You will be more alluring to a date when you remove your mask and be yourself without the pretense.
   你将变得更具吸引力的日期当您删除您的面具，是自己没有的幌子。
10. I pretense to know what I don't know.
    我假装知道我不知道的东西。
11. He made a pretense of asking for my advice.
    他装模作样地向我请教。
12. He collected money under the pretense of patriotism.
    他假藉爱国募集金钱。
13. If thy pass for Christians they are guilty of obtaining respect under false pretense.
    如果他们作为基督徒而亡，他们就是空背了基督徒的名声犯了虚妄罪。
14. Please note that there are also risks of dealing with foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretense.
    请注意也有可能与外国人、未成年人或者伪装之人进行交易的风险。
15. They immediately burned all their bridges behind them and abandoned any pretense of making a peace with Chiang Kai-shek.
    他们立即表明决不妥协，而且抛弃了与蒋介石言和的一切伪装。
16. The pretense of a useless shell.
    一片无用的贝壳的伪装。
17. The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.
    讽刺文学对人类的各种虚伪行为进行了精妙的嘲弄。
18. It is man's pretense that because he has choice he is free.
    人类总是自欺地认为，因为它有选择，所以它是自由的。
19. Bravadoa pretense of courage; a false show of bravery.
    故作勇敢；假装表现出勇敢。
20. A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display.
    故意的炫耀或者夸大言行。
21. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
    编造藉口、捏造罪名虚构作品或捏造借口的行为。
22. He made no pretense of caring about our predicament.
    他并没有假装关心我们的困境。
23. Effectively, you stop all pretense of caring what happens.
    可以这么说吧，你完全不去装做关心所发生的事情。
24. Can we convince God to somehow "Christianize" these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves?
    我们能否说服上帝把圣诞节中这些习俗、所有借口和谎言“基督教义化”呢？所以我们可以享受这个节日吗？
25. Because of this, their fantasies can confidently be brought to life through fiction without any pretense or unnecessary apologies.
    所以，他们的幻想可以理直气壮地以虚拟的姿态现身，不需要任何借口或累赘的解释。
26. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different.
    带着宗教或政治面具的偏见和轻蔑也都是一丘之貉。
27. Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.
    建立在虚假的基础上；虚假的赞美。
28. These adjectives mean genuine, honest, and devoid of hypocrisy or pretense.
    这些形容词都是真实、诚实、不虚伪或不伪饰的意思。
29. I make no pretense that I can predict how long it will take for the apple to fall.
    我并不是说我能预测，苹果掉落的时间。
30. But we're just living in the pretense of a marriage, responsibility.
    但现在我们只是假装维系着婚姻，责任。

noun

1. the act of giving a false appearance
   1. his conformity was only pretending

   Synonym:    pretencepretendingsimulationfeigning

2. an artful or simulated semblance
   1. under the guise of friendship he betrayed them

   Synonym:    guisepretencepretext

3. a false or unsupportable quality

   Synonym:    pretensionpretence

4. imaginative intellectual play

   Synonym:    pretencemake-believe

5. pretending with intention to deceive

   Synonym:    pretencefeigningdissembling