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这里为大家介绍下pretext 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ "pri:tekst ]名词复数:pretexts

中英文翻译

n.

1.借口，口实，托词。

2.假象，掩饰 (for)。

短语和例子

find a pretext for 为…找口实。 make a pretext of 以…作口实。 on some pretext or other 用某种借口。 on [under, upon] the pretext of 以…为借口，托词。

vt.

借口，假托。

an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

同义词：guise, pretense, pretence,

something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

同义词：stalking-horse,

A pretext is an excuse to do something or say something. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication.

例句与用法

1.The pretext was weak, even fishy .

借口是站不住脚的，甚至是可疑的。

2.On various pretexts they all moved off .

他们以各种各样的借口纷纷离开了。

3.Pretexts and appearances no longer deceive us .

那些托辞与假象再也不会欺骗我们了。

4.He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to shool .

他假托喉痛不到校上课。

5.The boy refuses to go to school on [under] the pretext of illness [an ailment , sickness] .

这孩子装病不去上学。

6.So we marked time, using the need to end the vietnam war as a pretext .

所以，我们借口需要结束越南战争，而把步子放慢了。

7.Under the pretext of travelling on business , ( some cadres ) go holidaying and waste public money .

以出差为名，游山玩水，给国家造成浪费。

8.The hawks would then lose heart in upholding the settlement, and the doves would have a pretext for not supporting it .

鹰派就会对维护协议失去信心，而鸽派则得到了不予支持的口实。

9.He required a pretext to participate in soviet bureaucratic decisions was to elevate chutzpah into an art form .

他需要找个借口才能参与苏联官僚机构的决定，不过是把厚颜无耻打扮得漂亮些罢了。

10.He was at mr. letterblair"s punctually at seven, glad of the pretext for excusing himself soon after dinner .

晚上七点，他准时来到莱特布莱尔先生家，因为大家理解他饭后马上告辞的理由，他感到心情舒畅。

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