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pre·tence 英ˈpriːˌtens, prɪˈtens美ˈpriˌtɛns, prɪˈtɛnsAHDprēʹtĕns', prĭ-tĕnsʹ ★☆☆☆☆高四Ｇ宝八COCA⁸⁴⁸⁷²BNC¹¹³⁴⁰iWeb²⁴³⁵⁷Economist¹³⁷⁷³
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n.假装⁷⁷;自命¹⁹;无事实根据的要求⁴=pretense美.复数pretences
借口假装虚假
Noun:
a false or unsupportable qualityan artful or simulated semblance;under the guise of friendship he betrayed them pretending with intention to deceiveimaginative intellectual playthe act of giving a false appearance;his conformity was only pretending 来自pretense的拼写变体。on the pretence of借口于make a pretence of假装
GRE难词记忆pretend→pre=forth 向前+tend=to stretch伸展→把手伸向前面提供→为了隐瞒真相而提供虚假的信息→假装GRE红宝书pre前, tence = tend倾向－提前装出的倾向－虚伪
pretend的名词
pre预先+tence=te nd倾向→预先装出的 →虚伪 pretend→pre=forth向前+tend=to stretch伸展→把手伸向前面提供→为了隐瞒真相而提供虚假的信息⇒假装词根记忆pre预先+ tence=tend倾向→ 预先装出的倾向 ⇒虚伪GRE难词记忆pretence→pretend v.假装的名词形式近义词 sham假air空气con骗局hoax欺骗hint暗示trick诡计claim要求guise装束deceit欺骗fantasy幻想pretext借口pretense借口outside在外面invention发明suggestion建议allegation断言pretension声称simulation模拟fabrication制造supposition假设presumption推测fancy华丽装饰的imagination想象make-believe假装pretending假装的dissembling动词dissemble的…feigning动词feign的现在进行…castles in the air空中楼阁(白日梦…
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用作名词He made apretenceof ignorance.他假装不知道。
The boy didn't take the exam under thepretenceof sickness.那个男孩借口生病没有参加考试。
She was unable to keep up thepretencethat she loved him.她无法继续假装爱他了。
I make nopretenceto being an expert on the subject.我不敢自诩为这方面的专家。
Don't listen to hispretences; he is lying.别听他的种种借口,他在撒谎。 So far the euro zone’s response has relied too much on two things: austerity and pretence.
迄今为止，欧元区给出的答案就是过重地仰仗两样事物：紧缩和虚伪。 ecocn
The diplomacy should therefore not be built on the pretence that Israel won a war it didn't.
外交途径因此也不会建立在假设以色列取胜的基础上实际上，以并未胜利。 ecocn
The failure of austerity and pretence
紧缩政策和虚伪行为的失败 ecocn
Under pretence of finding it accidentally, and being about to throw it away, Mr Sternbach took his powder to the head of pharmacology for testing.
施特恩巴赫假装这种粉末是在无意中发现且正打算丢弃，把粉末拿给药理主。任做测试。 ecocn
What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
这有何防呢。或是假意，或是真心，无论怎样，基督究竟被传开了。为此我就欢喜，并且还要欢喜。 yeeyan
But its members yesterday tore up any pretence that people have a right to know what they are eating.
但是该理事会成员昨日否决了任何人们有权利知道自己吃的是什么的借口。 yeeyan
Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.
一项新的调查显示，中国和印度员工比起法国和墨西哥员工更容易以生病为借口请假翘班于。 putclub
Every day he came home early, and at last made no pretence of going anywhere.
他每天都早早回家，最后索性也不假装要去什么地方了。 jukuu
I dropped my pretence, even if it was just for me.
我卸下了我的伪装，即使那真的是我的。 yeeyan
In town, I believe, he chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence, and being now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and dissipation.
我相信他大半都住在城里，但是他所谓学法律，只不过是一个借口罢了，现在他既然摆脱了一切羁绊，便整天过着浪荡挥霍的生活。 hjenglish
Instead of austerity and pretence, a credible rescue should start with growth and, where it is unavoidable, a serious restructuring of debt.
除了节制和托词，一个可信的拯救应该从增长开始，这里有一个无法避免的，严肃的债务重组。 ecocn
It is the failure of the Russian state to provide even a semblance of justice and the rule of law, or even a pretence of local democracy and accountability.
而是俄罗斯联邦不能给他们提供那怕只是表面上的公平和法制，或者那怕只是伪装的地方民主和责任。 ecocn
Now, the LDP has abandoned nearly all pretence at reform.
现在， LDP几乎抛弃了所有改革的借口。 ecocn
On her advice, I've dropped the pretence that my husband is always working.
根据她的建议，我已经不再假装我的丈夫一直在工作。 yeeyan
Only, the cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretence of reluctance.
只有这样，虐待才会有一种合乎道德的借口和假装的不情愿而被掩盖。 yeeyan
She was as far removed from pretence as she was from the posturing virtues that flourish in the credulous world of the drama.
她没有一点虚饰，也没有一点在这个容易轻信的世界上所流行的那种伪善。 kekenet
So perhaps they should be grateful that the Venezuelan president is increasingly abandoning the pretence.
所以，或许他们应该感激委内瑞拉总统开始逐渐放弃这些伪装。 ecocn
The employer often scolded his men on the slightest pretence.
这个老板常常以一点点借口就责骂他的员工。 kekenet
We both know he isn't called Ben Lopez, but we maintain the pretence.
我们都知道他不叫本-洛佩兹，但是我们继续假装。 yeeyan
We drove out of the village, down a steep slope, around the side of a hill and entered a valley where any pretence of government control vanished.
我们开车出了村庄，沿着山边陡峭的斜坡，进入了一个山谷，在那里，政府控制的所有假象完全消失了。 yeeyan
Whether Mr Obama is trying to solve the conflict or simply to manage it is hard to say, since the secret of“ managing” is to maintain the pretence that the peace process will indeed one day produce.
无论奥巴马先生试图解决冲突，还是仅仅打算管控冲突，现在还不清楚。因为管控的奥秘在于坚持一种虚假理由：终究有一天和平进程能开花结果。 ecocn |