英 [prɪˈtens] 美 [ˈpriːtens]
n. 假象，伪装；借口，托词；装扮游戏角色；自称， 自诩；虚浮炫耀的语言（或行为）
复数pretences
pretence /prɪˈtɛns/ TEM4
有变体名词 A pretence is an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true. 假装
He goes to the library and makes a pretence of reading some Thoreau.
他去图书馆假装读梭罗的书。
On the eighth day of questioning, she dropped the pretence that she was Japanese.
在审问的第8天，她不再假装她是日本人。
→seefalse pretences
a false or unsupportable quality
同义词： pretension / pretense
pretending with intention to deceive
同义词： pretense / feigning / dissembling
imaginative intellectual play
同义词： pretense / make-believe
the act of giving a false appearance
同义词： pretense / pretending / simulation / feigning
假装
所以，正如吾师Paco Peña一直强调我们要以「求真的心态来习艺，因为真正的Flamenco艺术是 假装 ( Pretence )不出来的。
... presumable 可能的，可假定的 pretence 虚伪；借口 prevision 先见，预感 ...
... gentrify 绅士化，(使)中产阶级化 pretence 借口，假装，自吹 unflagging 不减弱的，不垂头丧气的 ...
... presumptuous 冒昧的；专横的 pretence 伪装；假扮 pretension 借口；自负，骄傲 ...
假装；借口；虚伪
simulation / excuse / acting / blind
She was unable to keep up the pretence that she loved him.
她无法继续假装爱他了。
He goes to the library and makes a pretence of reading some Thoreau.
他去图书馆假装读梭罗的书。
On the eighth day of questioning, she dropped the pretence that she was Japanese.
在审问的第8天，她不再假装她是日本人。
Yet this report, like so many, adopts a preposterous pretence of precise measurement which immediately arouses suspicion.
At first she says she tried to keep up the pretence she was Japanese.
Many maintain that Britain should give up the pretence of being a busy power.