pretenses

英 [prɪˈtɛnsɪz]

美 [priˈtɛnsɪz]

n.  借口；假装；伪称
pretense的复数

双语例句

• What makes me most happy is what comes from within myself or simply being me without false pretenses.
  真正让我开心是内心存在的一些东西或者是简简单单做自己毫不伪装。
• And false pretenses became a way of life.
  虚假借口则成了生活的一部分。
• For some time I've been intending to tell you to stop your elaborate pretenses and drink openly if you want to.
  有个时候我一直想告诉你不用千方百计地掩饰了，要喝就公开喝吧。
• Ben: I swear I didn't lure you here under false pretenses.
  那好吧，等你找到了再给我打电话。
• Several characters are spies, traveling under false names and pretenses.
  许多角色都是间谍，在假名和虚伪包装下旅行。
• Until these qualities of truth and courage are generated, we will be vulnerable to our own pretenses and fabrications.
  在我们生起这些真实和勇气的特质之前，我们仍然容易受害于我们自己的虚伪和造作。
• Neither predatory lending nor the selling of mortgages on false pretenses caused the crisis.
  引起危机的根源即不是掠夺性借贷，也不是在虚假的前提下销售抵押产品。
• We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety.
  我们不会被他们伪装的虔诚所欺骗。
• They obtained money under the false pretenses of patriotism.
  他们以虚伪的爱国主义为借口获得金钱。
• If we trust each other, we are willing to be open to each other and can shed masks and pretenses and reveal our true selves.
  如果我们彼此信任，我们就愿意敞开心扉，摘下面具，去掉伪装，显示我们真实的自我。