pretence

1 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。

2 On the eighth day of questioning, she dropped the pretence that she was Japanese.

在审问的第8天，她不再假装她是日本人。

3 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。

4 “I wish we could contrive it,” said she; “but I cannot think of any tolerable pretence for going in;—no servant that I want to inquire about of his housekeeper—no message from my father.”

5 The failure of austerity and pretence

紧缩政策和虚伪行为的失败

6 Many maintain that Britain should give up the pretence of being a busy power.

许多人认为，英国该停止打肿脸充胖子，故作繁忙了。

7 She is as swathed in pretence as her husband, but the difference is that she knows it.

8 Their friendliness was only pretence.

他们的友善态度只不过是装出来的。

9 The film abandons quite early on any pretence of objectivity, and resigns itself to being hopelessly charmed, and quite rightly.

10 She was unable to keep up the pretence that she loved him.

她无法继续假装爱他了。

11 Elsewhere, Josie keeps up the pretence of going to her seminars each day, though on-street sightings of her lead the house to the wrong conclusion.

12 The pretence quickly backfires and Olive becomes an outcast in her own school.

13 But if the price of Reeves still being so recognisably Keanu-ish is him retaining a firm grip on his privacy and at least a pretence of normality, that feels like a fair trade-off.

14 "Fatai Rolling Dollar was a great musician, a frank and straight forward man, not a pretence."

15 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。

16 Photograph: Alamy You could hardly say that All the Birds, Singing lures you in under false pretences.

17 For this I know—he cannot be saved, I have, indeed, tried to tell myself that he will be, but at noon this pretence breaks down and melts before his groans.

18 Under the pretence of providing humanitarian aid, the Chinese army takes over what soon becomes North Japan, whereas the US army occupies the south.

19 According to documents uploaded by Variety, the lawsuit alleges that Weinstein asked Huett to his room at a hotel in Beverly Hills in 2010 under the pretence of discussing her acting career.

20 So they created their own world, an imperfect pretence of a perfect world.

1 虚伪

synthetic hollow pious hypocritical slimy pseudo Jesuitical hypocrisy sham deceit hollow-hearted histrionical cheap false counterfeit deceptive untrue lying fictitious pretentious disingenuous pretended untruthful histrionic janus-faced barmecide colourable false-hearted truthless artificial lie facade falsity untruth inveracity falsehood

2 夸耀

tall parade splurge flaunt glitter preen boast flourish brag vaunt

3 自命

pretension pretend

4 虚饰

gloss veneer fastuous coloured painted glossy vain gilded flamboyant tinsel ostentatious fallalery display paint dash parade pageant frill pomp pretension pageantry ostentation gilding wangle peacockery gild

5 做作

camp artificial affected theatrical unnatural overblown histrionic stagy flatulent mincing la-di-da flatulence affectation play-act guyver attitudinize

6 托辞

evasive excuse disguise cloak alibi subterfuge

7 声称

professed ostensible claim allegation pretension charge allege assert profess purport profession deposition

8 虚夸

rhetorical pretentious high-sounding orotund vanity

9 伪装

incognito mask persona disguise camouflage guise sham parade masquerade

10 口实

color handle mask blind colour stall plea refuge disguise peg veil cloak quirk pretext pretension salvo subterfuge

11 装模作样

arch niminy-piminy frill apery camp attitudinize posture

12 假装

false mock mimic sham assumed phoney act assumption simulation masquerade make-believe affectation play-acting play affect assume fake pretend disguise feign dissemble dissimulate play-act in disguise show ACT shape pose simulate counterfeit play-play come the make like artificial affected simulated pretended come fictitious seeming ostensible fictive hokey colourable mask pretension cut profess let on make believe professed put-on put on ostensibly bluff assumptive feignedly cover shit semblance puppetry personation feint playact personate make-up

13 企图

offer design attempt meaning bid essay shy undertaking assay stagger smite contemplation incubation rede intendment nisus conatus birl think aim imagine purpose intend contemplate meditate contrive

14 自称

professed self-styled professedly profess self-proclaimed soi-disant pretend purport would-be claim profession pretension

15 目的

objective will point end design cause view mind goal purpose object respect aim destination meaning scope politics intention intent sake counsel butt motive purport whither bourne bourn intendment big idea

16 自吹

jactitation parade

17 妄称

profess arrogate

18 矫饰

pretension pretentious mannered

19 借口

blind fake excuse licence plea pretext alibi get-out cover story stalking horse out cover front colour stall veil cop-out stalking-horse ground refuge disguise peg cloak guise pretension runaround pretend loophole creep hole

20 假象

show impression persona sham semblance simulacrum put-on

21 要求

call claim challenge request requirement demand desire instance requisition pretension postulation bespoke dib require seek appeal pretend stipulate postulate hit crave solicit gavel trumpet call

22 标榜

pretension tout purport

23 托词

front plea veil evasion subterfuge stalking-horse

24 炫耀

flashy pretentious garish show flash splurge pretension swank affect parade flaunt ponce about fine brilliant conspicuous flamboyant swanky glitzy effusive ritzy epideictic display blaze glitter pageant pomp panache affectation ostentation éclat coruscate flourish glare cut a wide swath

25 假托

cover veil masquerade feint make-believe pretend pretext

26 推托

put-off

27 佯装

counterfeit fake ACT pretend

28 虚假

illusive artificial unnatural exaggerated contrived mendacious untruth mendacity falsehood fake hollow mock deceptive bogus sham ersatz factitious deceptively falsity