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英式音标:[prɪ'tens]英式读音
美式音标:[ˈpriˌtɛns, prɪˈtɛns]美式读音
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概况:

n. 借口;虚假;炫耀;自吹(等于pretence)

词义:

n.

借口;(无事实根据的)要求;自称;假装

变形

复数:pretenses

英英释义

pretense[ pri'tens, 'pri:t- ]

n.

the act of giving a false appearance

同义词:pretencepretendingsimulationfeigning

pretending with intention to deceive

同义词:pretencefeigningdissembling

imaginative intellectual play

同义词:pretencemake-believe

a false or unsupportable quality

同义词:pretensionpretence

an artful or simulated semblance

同义词:guisepretencepretext

用法:

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

It is merely a pretense.
这只是托词而已。

You answered me with no pretense.
你坦诚相见的回答了我。

Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.
弄虚作假欺骗不了真正的行家。

He cheated me under the pretense of friendship.
他假借友谊欺骗我。

The pretense of greatness will be the proof of it, and powerful men with many severe faults will rule over all the classes on earth.
自称为伟大的会是拥有很多错误的有权势的人,他们支配着地上的所有阶级。

权威例句

On the pretense theory of irony.

A cognitive theory of pretense.

Verbal irony: Pretense or echoic mention?

Pretense and representation: Trie origins of theory of mind

Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind."

Pretense and representation in infancy : the origins of 'theory of mind'

Young children's understanding of pretense expressions of independent agency

Young children's conceptualization of pretense: Action or mental representational state?

How about another piece of pie: the allusional pretense theory of discourse irony.

Macroeconomics after the Crisis: Time to Deal with the Pretense-of-Knowledge Syndrome
同义词:phoniness,excuse,display,blind
同根词:pretentious,pretension,pretended,pretend,pretence
英语词源:

pretense (n.)

also pretence, early 15c., "the putting forth of a claim," from Anglo-French pretensse, Middle French pretensse (Modern French prétense), from Medieval Latin noun use of fem. of Late Latin praetensus, altered from Latin praetentus, past participle of praetendere (see pretend). Meaning "false or hypocritical profession" is from 1540s.

造句:

1. with sincerity; without pretense.

诚挚地;没有伪饰的。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

2. a man without pretense

不炫耀的人,踏实的人

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. A show, pretense, or display.

假装假装,假象,装出的样子

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

4. A pretense of nonchalance.

伪装的冷漠

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

5. on the slightest pretense

藉一点点口实

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. Playful or fanciful pretense.

好玩的或者古怪的装扮

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. False behavior;pretense.

装腔作势虚假的行为;假装

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

8. a pretense or misrepresentation

"借口,托词"

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例

9. under a pretense

借口

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

10. It is merely a pretense.

这只是托词而已。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

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