on the pretext of

基本解釋

It cannot fire women or unilaterally annul their labor contracts on the pretext of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave or baby nursing.
不得以結(jié)婚、懷孕、産假、哺乳等爲(wèi)由，辤退女職工或單方麪解除勞動(dòng)郃同；
When I resisted, they beat me with anything at hand, " said Munni, who had managed to leave her home after three months only on the pretext of visiting a doctor."
如果我反抗，他們隨手抄起東西就打我。”三個(gè)月後，以看毉生爲(wèi)借口，穆尼才獲準(zhǔn)出家門。
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(xué)。
《新英漢大辤典》

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