pretext 中文意思是什麼

音標 ['pri:tekst]
pretext 解釋
n. 名詞 1. 借口，口實，托詞。
2. 假象，掩飾 （for）。
vt. 及物動詞 借口，假託。

  1. Then, after dinner, on the pretext of business, he questioned the father and son upon their mode of living ; and the father and son, previously informed that it was through danglars the one was to receive his 48, 000 francs and the other 50, 000 livres annually, were so full of affability that they would have shaken hands even with the banker s servants, so much did their gratitude need an object to expend itself upon

    晚餐以後，騰格拉爾以談生意為借口，順便問到了他們父子的生活狀況。這父子倆事先已經知道他們的四萬八千法郎和每年的五萬法郎都要從騰格拉爾手裡得到，所以他們對這位銀行家的感激唯恐表示的不充分，叫他們去和他的僕人握手，他們也會十分願意的。
  2. The boy refuses to go to school on [under] the pretext of illness [an ailment, sickness].

    這孩子裝病不去上學。
  3. He required a pretext to participate in soviet bureaucratic decisions was to elevate chutzpah into an art form.

    他需要找個借口才能參與蘇聯官僚機構的決定，不過是把厚顏無恥打扮得漂亮些罷了。
  4. That march off on the slightest pretext like bloodthirsty rabble

    就讓軍隊長途跋涉，變成一群散兵游勇
  5. Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer s or druggist s, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, purchases five or six grammes of arsenic - if he is really a cunning fellow, he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced ; - then, when he has acquired his specific, he administers duly to his enemy, or near kinsman, a dose of arsenic which would make a mammoth or mastodon burst, and which, without rhyme or reason, makes his victim utter groans which alarm the entire neighborhood

    在我們的人社會里，一個傻瓜要是心裏懷有仇恨或動了貪念，想除掉一個仇人或除去一個近親，他就會徑自跑到雜貨店或藥房裡，借口老鼠吵得他無法睡覺，要買五六克砒霜，他還會捏造一個假名字，而那卻比真名字更容易被識破，假如他真是一個狡猾的傢伙，他就會分別到五六家不同的藥房或雜貨店裡去買，因此，當追蹤線索的時候，就更容易了五六倍。然後，當他弄到他想要的東西以後，他就莽莽撞撞地給他的仇人或近親吃一付砒霜，其份量之重，就是古代的巨象或恐吃了也會五臟崩裂的，就這樣毫無意義地使他的受害者在那裡呻吟，以致驚動了四鄰。
  6. The pretext was weak, even fishy.

    借口是站不住腳的，甚至是可疑的。
  7. Maximilian leaped at one bound into his crop of lucerne, which he began to pull up in the most ruthless way, under the pretext of being occupied in weeding it

    馬西米蘭一下子跳進他的苜蓿花地里，開始用最無情的態度鏟起野草來。
  8. He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to shool.

    他假託喉痛不到校上課。
  9. So we marked time, using the need to end the vietnam war as a pretext.

    所以，我們借口需要結束越南戰爭，而把步子放慢了。
  10. Under the pretext of travelling on business, ( some cadres ) go holidaying and waste public money.

    以出差為名，遊山玩水，給國家造成浪費。
  11. The hawks would then lose heart in upholding the settlement, and the doves would have a pretext for not supporting it.

    鷹派就會對維護協議失去信心，而鴿派則得到了不予支持的口實。
  12. He was at mr. letterblair's punctually at seven, glad of the pretext for excusing himself soon after dinner.

    晚上七點，他準時來到萊特布萊爾先生家，因為大家理解他飯后馬上告辭的理由，他感到心情舒暢。
  13. And letting go of all pretext and subterfuge,

    拋開所有的借口
  14. There has been recurrent talk by the government of registering all internet users, and many worry that a wave of online threats and vigilantism could serve as a pretext to impose new limits on users

    那是政府反復使用的對所有網際網路用戶作監控（的原因）的談話，而且對網際網路恐嚇浪潮的擔憂可以成為對網際網路用戶進行新的限制的借口。
  15. There has been recurrent talk by the government of registering all internet users, and many here worry that a wave of online threats and vigilantism could serve as a pretext to impose new limits on users

    政府也反復提出要對所有網際網路用戶進行實名登記，而這里的許多人都擔心一個網路威脅和治安的風波將可能作為對用戶強加新限制的借口
  16. You pity the blind man who has never seen the light of day, the deaf man who has never heard the harmonies of nature, the mute who has never found a voice for his soul, and yet, under the specious pretext of decency, you will not pity that blindness of heart, deafness of soul and dumbness of conscience which turn the brains of poor, desperate women and prevent them, despite themselves, from seeing goodness, hearing the lord and speaking the pure language of love and religion

    你們同情見不到陽光的瞎子，同情聽不到大自然音響的聾子，同情不能用聲音來表達自己思想的啞巴但是，在一種虛假的所謂廉恥的借口之下，你們卻不願意同情這種心靈上的瞎子，靈魂上的聾子和良心上的啞巴。這些殘疾逼得那個不幸的受苦的女人發瘋，使她無可奈何地看不到善良，聽不到天主的聲音，也講不出愛情信仰的純潔的語言。
  17. This is clearly manifested in the irresponsible way many of us drive and park our vehicles, the indiscriminate use of hand phones and other electronic devices, unpunctual for business and private appointments, jumping queues with no guilt feelings, chattering in cinemas, public lectures and libraries, using force on others with the slightest pretext, to name just a few of our more glaring failings

    我們應該關注這種情況。這樣的例子為數不少，比較明顯的有：魯莽駕駛非法停車在不適當的場所使用手機和其他電子設備不守時赴約插隊在戲院，講座和圖書館喋喋不休的談論及對他人使用暴力。
  18. Asked the old countess, who, having drunk her tea, was obviously seeking a pretext for ill - humour after taking food

    「這究竟是怎麼一回事，我親愛的朋友？ 」她已喝完茶，看來想在飯后找一個借口發脾氣。
  19. The nature of neo - interventionism is to meddle into internal affairs of other states and to conduct power politics under the pretext of humanitarian assistance

    新干涉主義的實質是以人道主義援助為名，干涉別國內政，大搞霸權主義和強權政治。
  20. Fleece or blackmail people by taking advantage of their weakness or under a certain pretext

    以某種借口或利用某人的弱點，索取錢財或抬高價格。
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