pretences是什么意思？

pretences

• n. 假装( pretence的名词复数 )，作假，自命，自称；

例句

• There are no pretences about him. 他一点不虚伪.
• Conrad had been imprisoned for a year for gaining money by false pretences. 康拉德因为诈骗钱财已经坐了一年的牢。
• I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences... 我再也不能和一个靠谎言骗我结婚的男人继续生活下去了。
• We have to drop our pretences and look squarely at schooling as it really is. 我们必须抛开一切伪装，正视学校教育的真实情况。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  假装；做作；矫饰
  A pretence is an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true.
  例句
  Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad... 韦兰假装在便笺薄上做笔记。 We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better... 我们只得一直假装情形在好转。
• PHRASE
  以虚假的借口；以欺骗的手段
  If you do something under false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
  例句
  I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences... 我再也不能和一个靠谎言骗我结婚的男人继续生活下去了。 Conrad had been imprisoned for a year for gaining money by false pretences. 康拉德因为诈骗钱财已经坐了一年的牢。