查询词典 pretense

You don't need to creat a pretense .

你不需要编造一个谎言。

If those things which make the pleasures of debauched men, put an end to the fears of the mind, and to those which arise about the heavenly bodies, and death, and pain; and if they taught us what ought to be the limit of our desires, we should have no pretense for blaming those who wholly devote themselves to pleasure, and who never feel any pain or grief from any quarter.

如果使放荡的人曾经快乐的那些东东最后让其心灵对与圣灵、死亡及痛苦有关的结果充满恐惧的话，如果它们让我们知道必须限制自己的欲望的话，我们就不应该去谴责那些完全献身快乐而从不感到来自任何方面的任何痛苦或忧伤的人。

I was compelled to make a pretense of worshiping her God, which was her exaction for my keep.

我就得被迫装着崇拜她的上帝，这是她为哺育我对我提出的要求。

Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.

除了巧妙地假装耳聋之外，我一点也没有弄虚作假。

The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense .

讽刺文学对人类的各种虚伪行为进行了精妙的嘲弄。

IX. And also sundry grievous offenders, by color thereof claiming an exemption, have escaped the punishments due to them by the laws and statutes of this your realm, by reason that divers of your officers and ministers of justice have unjustly refused or forborne to proceed against such offenders according to the same laws and statutes, upon pretense that the said offenders were punishable only by martial law, and by authority of such commissions as aforesaid; which commissions, and all other of like nature, are wholly and directly contrary to the said laws and statutes of this your realm.

而且，各种各样犯有重罪的人，通过这样的幌子要求免除审判，已经逃脱根据王国内的法律和条令他们应得的惩罚，其原因就是若干国王的审判官员和大臣以前述的罪人应按军事法律，应由前述的代理人的权力来惩罚为借口，不公正的拒绝或避免根据同样的法律和条令审判这些人；这些委托函，以及其它所有这一类的东西，均完全的与王国内前述的法律和条令相违背。良好的人性，恰当的理性，和对上帝的信仰。规则的美在于简单，个性的美在于丰富，语言的美在于逻辑。

In painting she tries all kinds of methods – including chickens, watermelons, bad taste, dirty paint, wisecracks, the mundane, commercial paintings, pretense, cheapness, clumsy imitation, girlishness, etc – to make a mockery of painting.

于是，绘画在自嘲中获得了解脱，对，在绘画中想尽各种办法——包括鸡、西瓜、坏趣味、脏颜料、插科打诨、俗、行画、装腔作势、廉价、幼稚的模仿、小女人气等等——来嘲笑绘画，这正是段建宇使绘画获得自由的办法。

Aristotle had made no secret of his contempt for Alexander's pretense of divinity, and the king had executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor.

亚里士多德明确看不起亚历山大假装神圣，国王以叛国罪处死了亚里士多德的侄外孙卡里斯提尼斯。

What sun there is this time of year shines weakly, halfheartedly through the white gauze of clouds, offering not even the slightest pretense of warmth.

一年中此时的太阳发出微弱的光线，懒洋洋地透过薄薄的云层，没有一丝暖意。

When I launched my ill-fated congressional run, Michelle put up no pretense of being happy with the decision.

当我开始进行注定要倒霉的众议员竞选时，米歇尔对这个决定甚至都没有假装支持一下。

For every one of my New Year resolutions, I have been a backslider for years.

说到我的新年决心，我每年都做

With empathy and focus on a feeling level, we can all relate to the common ground of mutuality of emotions.

有了同情心和感觉上一级的重点，我们都可以涉及到相互的情感共同点。