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pretence

英 [prɪ'tens] 美
  • n. 假装;借口;虚伪

英英释意


1. a false or unsupportable quality
2. an artful or simulated semblance;
"under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
3. pretending with intention to deceive
4. imaginative intellectual play
5. the act of giving a false appearance;
"his conformity was only pretending"