pretences

英 [prɪˈtɛnsɪz]

美

n.  假象; 伪装; 虚伪的表现; 妄称; 自称; 标榜
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柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 pretense


• N-VAR 假装；做作；矫饰
  Apretenceis an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true.
  1. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad...
     韦兰假装在便笺薄上做笔记。
  2. 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。
  3. The government abandoned any pretence of reform.
     政府不再装模作样地进行改革。
• PHRASE 以虚假的借口；以欺骗的手段
  If you do somethingunder false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• We have to drop our pretences and look squarely at schooling as it really is.
  我们必须抛开一切伪装，正视学校教育的真实情况。
• In 2006, Hewlett-Packard was embroiled in a scandal after investigators working on its behalf used false pretences to get hold of private phone records of board members and journalists, attempting to establish where leaks of information were occurring.
  惠普（HP）就曾在2006年卷入一件丑闻。为了确认信息泄露的渠道，代表该公司进行调查的人员利用虚假的借口，取得了惠普董事与记者的私人电话记录。
• One in three workers admit to taking time off under false pretences, according to research.
  一项研究表明：三分之一的员工承认请假时使用假借口。
• A consultancy said clients had demanded guarantees that it would properly identify to potential interviewees in China all staff involved in custom market research and not extract any information under false pretences.
  一家咨询公司表示，客户已要求得到保证：它将在中国向潜在受访者恰当说明所有参与定制市场调研的员工的身份，并且不以任何虚假借口获得信息。
• He extorted money from poor farmers under false pretences.
  他讹诈穷苦农民的钱财。
• Perhaps that explains why the disreputable new labour project won three elections, despite taking Britain to war under false pretences and almost bankrupting the country.
  或许正因如此，声名狼藉的“新工党”计划赢得了三次大选尽管工党让英国在没有合理理由的情况下卷入了战争，甚至几乎让英国破产。
• He obtained money by false pretences.
  他用欺骗手段获取钱财。
• 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。
• The economy will recover its equilibrium only when workers expectations are fulfilled, prices turn out as anticipated, and they no longer sell their labour under false pretences.
  除非劳动者的期望得以满足，物价合情合理，而且他们不会再在受到蒙蔽的情况下出卖自己的劳动力，经济才会恢复平衡。
• She will be open to me and can shed masks and pretences and reveal her true self.
  她将向我敞开心扉并会脱去她的面具和伪装，向我展示她真是的自己。