pretence

noun

1. the act of giving a false appearance

e.g. his conformity was only pretending

Synonym: pretensepretendingsimulationfeigning

2. an artful or simulated semblance

e.g. under the guise of friendship he betrayed them

Synonym: guisepretensepretext

3. a false or unsupportable quality

Synonym: pretensionpretense

4. imaginative intellectual play

Synonym: pretensemake-believe

5. pretending with intention to deceive

Synonym: pretensefeigningdissembling

1. 假装；做作；矫饰
A pretence is an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true.

e.g. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad...
韦兰假装在便笺薄上做笔记。
e.g. 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. 以虚假的借口；以欺骗的手段
If you do something under false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

1. 假装：其要点是,谈论虚构事物的语句应该理解为一种在假装(pretence)意义上的语言行为,即参与言谈的各方共同地假装某物存在,或假装某物为其它一些事物. 比如,在儿童游戏中,儿童们假装一个沙发是一座大山等等. 这种解释接触到了虚构事物不必存在,

2. 伪装：muscadel 葡萄酒的一种 | pretence 伪装 | domestic aerial (卫星广播)家用(电视)接收天线

3. 假装;托词：pretectonic 构造期前的 | pretence 假装;托词 | pretension spring 预应力弹簧

4. pretence的翻译

4. 借口,假装,自吹：Pretense借口,假装,自吹 | Pretence 借口,假装,自吹 | Unflagging 不减弱的,不垂头丧气的