pretence是什么意思

音标:英 [prɪˈtens]美 [ˈprɪˌtɛns, prɪˈtɛns]

假装, 虚伪, 借口, 自称, 要求[法] 假装, 借口, 托词

n a false or unsupportable quality
n an artful or simulated semblance
n pretending with intention to deceive
n imaginative intellectual play
n the act of giving a false appearance

pretence的用法和例句：

1. I've had you here on false pretences.

我其實是找了個托辭叫你來的

2. He knows I was a housemaid, so there's no pretence.

他知道我做过女佣 我没装什么

3. It's the pretence you cannot brook, I think.

你不能接受的只是那些虚伪的逢场作戏

4. All I ask is that we stop the pretence, at least with each other.

我只求我们不要再假装了 至少别跟彼此装了

5. But you must have known this pretence couldn't last.

但你一定早就知道谎言迟早会被拆穿

6. Finally, we may end our pretence of courtship.

我们终于可以不用再装作在求爱了

7. I am starting to think my life has been something of a pretence.

我开始觉得我的生活是一种伪装

8. I never understood why he kept up that ridiculous pretence.

我就不明白他为什么要说这种荒唐的谎话

9. And I hope that, underneath this whole pretence, you actually still believe in our profession.

虽然装成这副模样 但我希望 你心里仍然坚持我们的职业操守

10. Jenny and I are married, yet for appearance's sake, we maintain a pretence, in public, that she is my maid.

詹妮和我已经结婚了 可是为了掩人耳目 我们在公开场合还是假扮主仆