Pretence
[prɪ'tens]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Alt. of Pretenceless
(n.) The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.
(n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.
(n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
(n.) Intention; design.
巴塞洛缪校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [Written also Pretense.] [1]. Show (to conceal a thing to be done), false appearance, mask, color, simulation, affectation, cant, PRETEXT, clap-trap.[2]. Subterfuge, evasion, excuse.
安迪編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color, show, garb, plea,assumption, make_believe, outside_show, pretension
ANT:Verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness, openness,veritableness, actuality, fact
手打:瓦内萨
例句/造句/用法:
- Is THAT the secret of your pretence of innocence, and your story about Rosanna Spearman? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Would you two gentlemen object to making a pretence of taking a glass of something in my company at the Fellowships? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I could not be expected to give her up, he said, after a moment's hesitation: it was not a case for any pretence of generosity. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Poor pretence as it is, these allusions to her being expected keep up hope within him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Twemlow; blessed release for the dear man if she really was his daughter, nervous even under the pretence that she is, well he may be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I made a foolish pretence of not at first recognizing it, and then told her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- She showed it by brushing away viciously at Margaret's hair, under pretence of being in a great hurry to go to Mrs. Hale. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I turned him hastily on some pretence, and held him in conversation until it was gone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Sitting beside him, I made a pretence of working for my dear, as he had always been used to joke about my being busy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- How thoughtfully remind me, yet with no pretence of doing so, of the trust in which I held the orphan child! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Never, on any pretence, mind! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He came on the pretence of playing golf. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Louisa understood the loving pretence, and her heart smote her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Then you married me on false pretences. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Then you married me on false pretences? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Their usual pretences are, sometimes the high price of provisions, sometimes the great profit which their masters make by their work. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
吉塞尔編輯