参考词典中pretence的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 假装,虚伪,借口,自称,要求
常用短语
参考例句
- I have no pretence to being an expert on the subject.
我并不自命是这方面的专家. - You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.
你不应该以一点点借口就责骂他。
- I have no pretence to being an expert on the subject.
英英解释
5个名词解释
- a false or unsupportable quality
[同] pretence, pretense, pretension - an artful or simulated semblance
[同] guise, pretence, pretense, pretext
[例]- under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
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- pretending with intention to deceive
[同] dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense - imaginative intellectual play
[同] make-believe, pretence, pretense - the act of giving a false appearance
[同] feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation
[例]- his conformity was only pretending
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