pretence 中文意思是什麼

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pretence 解釋
n. 名詞 1. 借口，口實，托辭，假託。
2. 假裝，假做作，虛偽。
3. 虛飾，虛裝門面。
4. （無理的）要求，虛假的理由 （to）。
5. 自命，自稱；自吹。
6. 〈罕用語〉目的，企圖。

  1. The family depended on his ability to wangle a few dollars occasionally. with this money, they would eat well and dress well for a while, making a pretence of affluence.

    一家人全靠他在外面訛個錢，詐個財，吃點好的，穿點好的，裝門面。
  2. Arthur believed that this was just a pretence.

    阿瑟認為這僅僅是一種掩飾。
  3. It was rather absurd, and somehow sinister, to see this social pretence in those poverty-stricken surroundings on a borneo river.

    在婆羅洲的一條河上，周圍一片窮困潦倒的景象，還裝模作樣的擺譜，真有點不倫不類，簡直可以說是荒誕離奇了。
  4. A pretence is the cloak of secret.

    矯飾是秘密的外衣。
  5. " i would ask for six months in advance, under pretence of being able to purchase a farm, then with my six months i would decamp.

    「我會以買農場為借口，要求預支六個月的錢，有了六個月的收入，我就可以溜之大吉了。 」
  6. They were so thrilled and delighted that they flung away any pretence of being demure young ladies and rushed out of the house.

    她們驚喜若狂，因此一掃少女往常的矜持，沖出屋子。
  7. We all agreed that he used the pretence to account for any disappointment he could not conceal, rather than he would blame the real cause of it, or disparage or depreciate any one.

    我們都認為他寧可利用這種借口來說明他無法掩藏他那失望的心情，而不願追究失望的真正原因，也不願輕視或譏笑任何人。
  8. These embraces were a vain pretence.

    這類擁護完全是故作姿態。
  9. They are making a pretence of equity with serious faces.

    他們板起面孔，裝作大公無私的樣子。
  10. They are making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.

    他們板起面孔，像演員一樣，裝出大公無私的樣子。
  11. His followers pressed him, telling him his magic was all a pretence.

    跟隨他的人對他施加壓力，激他說他的魔法全是假的。
  12. The next two days he kept his lodgings, under pretence of indisposition, and took leave, by writing, of his noble friend, the high commissioner.

    在以後的兩天中他借口身體不適，閉戶不出，同時寫了封信向他高貴的朋友，那位高級專員，告辭。
  13. Your plea of old age is only a pretence.

    您借口說您年紀老了，這不過是托辭。
  14. My first contrivance was to make a pretence to speak to this moor, to get something for our subsistance on board ; for i told him we must not presume to eat of our patroon s bread, he said that was true ; so he brought a large basket of rusk or bisket of their kind, and three jarrs with fresh water into the boat ; i knew where my patroon s case of bottles stood, which it was evident by the make were taken out of some english prize ; and i convey d them into the boat while the moor was on shoar, as if they had been there before, for our master : i convey d also a great lump of bees - wax into the boat, which weighed above half a hundred weight, with a parcel of twine or thread, a hatchet, a saw and a hammer, all which were of great use to us afterwards ; especially the wax to make candles

    我知道主人裝酒的箱子放的地方看那箱子的樣子，顯然也是從英國人手裡奪來的戰利品。我趁那摩爾人上岸去的時候，就把那箱酒搬上舢舨，放到一個適當的地方，好像主人原來就放在那兒似的。同時我又搬了六十多磅蜜蠟到船上來，還順便拿了一小包粗線，一把斧頭，一把鋸子和一隻錘子這些東西后來對我都非常有用，尤其是蜜蠟，可以用來做蠟燭。
  15. And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear

    原來你是假裝要緩和一下剛才的無禮態度，撫慰我使我心平氣和，而實際上你是在我耳朵下面狡猾地捅了一刀。
  16. Perhaps the main innovation is plain speaking and the dropping of any pretence of an over - arching vision

    可能此行較之以往最大的改變就是平實的口號以及褪去了矯揉造作的偽裝。
  17. The prosperity would seem to indicate a pretence.

    表面上的繁榮不過是個幌子。
  18. He wished to be relieved of his post on the pretence of ill health.

    他想託病辭職。
  19. The result manifests in the pearson " s correlation coefficients : e dimension has significant positive but low correlation with mature and neurotic defense factors ; n dimension has significant positive correlation from medium level and decreased progressively with immature neurotic and mature defense factors ; p dimension has simular phenomenon as n dimension while l dimension has negative and medium level of negative correlation with pretence factor

    在dsq與epq的相關結果表明： e維度與成熟型和中間型防禦因子有低的正相關； n維度與不成熟、中間型和成熟型相關從中等依次遞減； p維度的情況與n維度相若； l維度與掩飾因子中等程度的負相關。
  20. I cannot think of any tolerable pretence for going in.

    我現在想不出任何可以走進去的講得過去的借口。
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