pretexts
n.
借口，托辞( pretext的名词复数 )；
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]借口；托词 a reason given for an action in order to hide the real intention;excuse
英英释义
pretext[ 'pri:tekst ]
n.
something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
同义词：stalking-horse
an artful or simulated semblance
同义词：guisepretensepretence
词组短语
on the pretext of以...为借口
find a pretext for为…找口实
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
He stayed away under the pretext of ill health.
他以身体不佳为借口而避开了。
He refused to see them on one pretext or another.
他以种种借口拒绝见他们。
权威例句
PRETEXTSPretexts
Pretexts
Pretexts and Paratexts: The Art of the Peripheral
On pretexts for higher education development activities
Performance‐related Pay: Pretexts and Pitfalls
Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War
Legal anxieties and medical mistakes: barriers and pretexts
Green pretexts: Ecotourism, neoliberal conservation and land grabbing in Tayrona National Natural Park, Colombia
Monitoring, indicators and community based forest management in the tropics: pretexts or red herrings?
1. On various pretexts, they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
它们都以各种借口离开了，很快就只剩下爱丽丝一个人了。
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2. He procrastinated his return on various pretexts.
他以各种借口拖延归期。
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3. I don't know the real reason below the mass of pretexts.
我不知道在一大堆借口掩饰之下的真正原因。
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4. Guessed that the old lady but the pretexts, "the quit my business."
孰料老太太却推得一干二净，“这个不干我事。”
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5. Can never ignore my wife this point, is always the need to under various pretexts.
可老婆从来不理会我这点，总是以各种借口推托。
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6. If you took this way of thinking far enough, don't you think you might end up using scripts merely as pretexts?
那么如果把这样的思路延伸到头，剧本相对于电影本身不是沦落为仅仅是一个拍摄的借口？
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7. Whenever and wherever possible, they go nosing around for our shortcomings which they use as pretexts for sabotage.
他们随时随地寻找我们的缺点，作为他们进行破坏活动的借口。
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8. Considering the importance that Chinese households attach to education, schools have great pricing power to raise charges on all sorts of pretexts.
考虑到中国家庭对教育的重视，学校会以各种借口运用其定价权来提高费用。
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9. Expert Comment: the housing purchase intention money, makers of the provisions of all sorts of pretexts, in order to reach the buyer to collect money to obtain unjust enrichment and set a trap.
专家评论：房屋购买意向的钱，制造商的规定种种借口，以达到买方收钱获取不义之财，并设定了陷阱。
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10. Expert Comment: the housing purchase intention money, makers of the provisions of all sorts of pretexts, in order to reach the buyer to collect money to obtain unjust enrichment and set a trap.
专家评论：房屋购买意向的钱，制造商的规定种种借口，以达到买方收钱获取不义之财，并设定了陷阱。
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