柯林斯詞典pretence /pr??t?ns/ (pretences) [英國英語] AM pretense1. N-VAR A pretence is an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true. 假裝 He goes to the library and makes a pretence of reading some Thoreau. 他去圖書館假裝讀梭羅的書。 On the eighth day of questioning, she dropped the pretence that she was Japanese. 在審問的第8天，她不再假裝她是日本人。2. PHRASE →see false pretences 返回 pretence劍橋詞典a way of behaving that is intended to deceive people 假裝；偽稱；虛偽的表現(xiàn) She made absolutely no pretence of being interested . 她毫不掩飾自己絲毫不感興趣。 They kept up (= continued ) a pretence of normality as long as they could. 他們盡可能地繼續(xù)裝作一切正常。 The army has given up any pretence of neutrality in the war . 軍隊已放棄了在戰(zhàn)爭中的中立偽裝。 返回 pretence