pretense是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

n. 〈美〉同“pretence”

网络 借口；伪装；假装

变形：

复数：pretenses  

完整释义：

n.

1.假装;虚伪

例句：

1. Both actions would throw light upon the darkness of the black market and thus reduce America's gross national pretense of virtue.
   这样的行动将会使秘密的黑市公开化，并因此减少美国的国民品德总体的矫饰行为。

2. Not the pretense of the saints, who pretend, incomprehensibly, inhumanly, to never even have those urges at all.
   而不是那些道貌岸然的圣人，他们不可思议地、没有人情味地假装从来没有说谎的欲望。

3. But last week's message said the South may use the Cheonan incident as a pretense for war, Hyun said.
   但HyunIn-hye说，上周的指令称，韩国可能会以“天安”号事件为借口挑起战争。

4. Tuomas: I also tried to avoid the kind of pretense that often plagues concept albums.
   我总是尽力避免让新砖成为大众心目中所理解的概念专辑。

5. But if we had any pretense at all to being just, fair and democratic nations, we would not tolerate it.
   但如果我们有一丁点儿伸张正义，追求公平和实现国家民主的想法的话，我们将不能容忍上述行径。

6. I do not get to go outsides and hang around talking to the other smokers at regular intervals on the pretense that I'm having nicotine fit.
   也不能每隔一段时间伪称尼古丁发作而去外边溜达着同其他的烟民聊几句。

7. They make no pretense in trying to replicate a Marshall sound or a Fender sound.
   他们是在试图复制一个马歇尔声音或声音挡泥板没有借口。

8. Integrity leads to purity. And none of it is pretense. It is integrity of heart.
   真实无伪的表现会带来纯洁，这当中没有假装是出于一颗真实无伪的心。