| 单词 | pretense |
| 释义 | pre·tense I. or pre·tence 1. < theory which has made the … greatest pretense of having a scientific foundation — John Dewey > especially < the pretense that one does not use theater music in religious ceremonies — Virgil Thomson > 2. a. < confuse dignity with pomposity and pretense — Bennett Cerf > b. < it would be a delight to talk without pretense — Louis Bromfield > 3. < the people were so overwhelmingly ignorant that democracy could only be a pretense — C.L.Jones > < laboring … to keep some pretense of order in San Antonio — Green Peyton > — often used with at < without pretense at general inclusiveness — Frank Weitenkampf > 4. a. obsolete b. < felt as though he were there under false pretenses — Joseph Conrad > < under a pretense of personal devotion to a country in which he was not born — O.S.J.Gogarty > 5. a. < mother's affectionate pretense of his being head of the family — Mary Austin > b. 6. < made a pretense of searching his pockets for cigarettes > < saw through his pretense of indifference > II. or pretence obsolete |
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