pretext
['pri:tekst]
n. 借口
例句与用法:
On the pretext of asking for my advice, he called and borrowed£10 from me.
他以向我讨教为借口,上门找我借了十英镑。
He came to see me on the pretext of asking my advice.
他以请我指教为借口来看我。
We'll have to find a pretext for not going to the party.
我们得找个借口不去参加聚会。
词形变化:
动词过去式: pretexted | 动词过去分词: pretexted | 动词现在分词: pretexting | 动词第三人称单数: pretexts |
n.[C]
借口; 托辞
John left early under the pretext of illness.
今天约翰以生病为藉口, 提早离开了。
The little boy tried very hard to find a pretext for not doing his homework.
这小男孩竭力想找个不做作业的藉口。
pretext
名词复数:pretexts
词形变化:
动词过去式: pretexted | 动词过去分词: pretexted | 动词现在分词: pretexting | 动词第三人称单数: pretexts |
词义辨析:
同义:
n.藉口; 欺骗
pretense
excuse
cover
sham
同义参见:
color
alibi
out
profession
pretext['pri:tekst]n.1.■借口;托词2.■掩盖;掩饰3.■(掩盖真实意图的)惑人外表(或行为)vt.1.■以…为借口;假托:He pretexted an early engagement in town the next morning.他借口明天早晨在城里有约会。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 (或under,upon) the pretext of以…为借口,托词变形vt.
pretextpretext[ˈpri:tekst]n.1.■借口, 托词2.■假象, 掩饰(for)He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to school.他以喉痛作为不去学校的借口。
词性变化pretext[ˈpri:tekst]vt.1.■[priˈtekst] 以...为借口, 假托pretext an early appointment in town next morning以第二天早晨镇上有约会为借口
noun
- a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason
借口;托词
the rebels had the perfect pretext for making their move.
反叛者有最堂皇的借口采取行动。
■(on 或 under the pretext)giving the specified reason as one's justification
以…为借口
he called round on the pretext of asking after her mother.
他以问候她母亲为借口前来拜访。
- early 16th cent.: from Latin praetextus 'outward display', from the verb praetexere 'to disguise', from prae 'before' + texere 'weave'
pretext
名词 pretext:
something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
同义词:stalking-horse
an artful or simulated semblance
pretext
■He left early on the pretext that he had a bad tootache and had to see the dentist.
"他早退的藉口是他牙疼得厉害,得去看牙科医生。"
■Benefaction is concrete and related to an actual,specific thing ,those abstract and general are the pretext of knave , hypocrisy and lickspittle.
2行善总是具体的、特定的;抽象的、笼统的行善是恶棍、伪君子和献媚者的托辞。
■Wcrypt2.dcu is CryptAPI the C language translation for the package under the pretext of documents in Delphi.
Wcrypt2.dcu是CryptAPI C语言翻译包的借口下在Delphi中的文件。
■"There are always people who are seizing on this pretext to assault Mexicans, even just verbally.
“始终有人被以这种借口被扣留攻击墨西哥人,即使是口头的。”
■A lame man obtained some money from several benevolent persons by making a pretext of being a returned soldier who was disabled in the war.
一个跛子谎称是战争致残的士兵而从几位好心人那里弄到了一点钱。
■On my second visit, in October 1971, under the pretext of preparing for my President Nixon's trip, Zhou Enlai and I began an intimate dialogue on major world issues.
一九七一年十月我第二次访华时,在为尼克松的访问作准备的名义下周恩来同我开始深入交谈世界大事。
■Under one pretext or another, in the spring of 1947, Chiang's gendarmes rounded up two thousand civilians in Peiping and another three thousand in Tsingtao and Canton.
一九四七年春,蒋的宪兵以种种借口在北平抓了两千人,在青岛和广州也抓了三千人。
■There are very brillant students but there are also people for whom the studies are only a pretext to spend some time in a foreing country.
一些学生通过政府间交流项目来法学习,一些是自己想办法来的,这是两种截然不同的情况。
■There is no sense in fastening on that pretext of yours.
一味强调你那个藉口是没有用处的。
■The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the cure, and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other.
一天,他到韦尔农去探望他的兄弟,走到桥上,遇见了彭眉胥上校,便认出他正好是圣稣尔比斯的那个人。
■The dukes in the times of the Three Kingdoms all stove for their own benefits under the pretext of ridding the emperor of "evil" ministers.
三国时期的诸侯们都打着清君侧的旗号为已谋利。
■It cannot fire women or unilaterally annul their labor contracts on the pretext of marriage,pregnancy,maternity leave or baby nursing.
不得以结婚、怀孕、产假、哺乳等为由,辞退女职工或单方面解除劳动合同。
■It cannot fire women or unilaterally annul their labor contracts on the pretext of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave or baby nursing.
不得以结婚、怀孕、产假、哺乳等为由,辞退女职工或单方面解除劳动合同;
■No matter what pretext he found no one believed.
不管他找什么借口都没有人相信。
■However foolish Mr Saakashvili was to give Russia a pretext for invasion, he should stay in office until Georgians themselves throw him out.
不管萨卡什维利送给俄国入侵的借口有多么愚蠢,在格鲁吉亚人民把他赶下台之前,他依然是总统。
■There must not be a double standard whereby anti-nuclear proliferation is used as a pretext to limit or retard the peaceful use of nuclear energy by developing nations.
不能采取双重标准,以防止核扩散为借口限制和损害发展中国家和平利用核能。
■One must not push too far in descent under pretext of a return to reason.
不要借口恢复理智,而在下坡路上滑过了头。
■Political differences between the two sides of the Straits should not be used as a pretext or obstacle for obstructing the "three direct links.
两岸之间的政治分歧不应成为阻挠“三通”的借口和障碍。
■At noon she excused herself on some pretext and left the house.
中午她找了一个借口,说了一声就走了。
■The Chinese government opposes creating confrontations in religion or interfering in the internal affairs of another country under the pretext of religion.
中国政府反对在宗教领域搞对抗,反对利用宗教干涉别国内政。
■The "crime" needed as a pretext to rectify these peculiarities was not hard to find, or invent.
为了矫正这些特质,俄罗斯需要一些借口,而它可以很容易找到、甚至捏造一个“罪名”。
■We have lost so subjective things on the right judgement, so we started to evade the pretext used to cover also the self-deception.
主观让我们失去了对事情正确的判断,于是我们开始逃避,借口用来遮掩的同时也自欺欺人。
■He found a pretext for stopping, then took another road.
于是他找了个借口,停了下来,后来朝另一条路走了。
■Human rights groups and Uighur groups in the West say Chinese authorities often use terrorism as a pretext to persecute the country's Muslim minority.
人权组织和在西方国家的维吾尔人组织说,中国当局经常以反恐为借口,迫害穆斯林少数民族。
■Some church is disordered and full of troubles because of the leaders' dereliction of duty, yet the leaders pretext that no church on earth is perfect.
今天有不少教会领袖不致力于照着圣经的原则治理教会,却借口说地上没有完美的教会。
■John left early under the pretext of illness.
今天约翰以病为藉口,提早离开了。
■He inspects the department not as a service to the company, but as a pretext to benefiting himself.
他不把视察该部门当作他对公司应尽的义务,而把它作为牟利的一次机会。
■Meanwhile he thought I was finding fault with him, that I was using this as a pretext to leave him.
他以为我故意为难他,找藉口撇弃他。
■He used his research as a pretext for travelling to Hungary.
他以做研究为名到匈牙利去旅游。
■On the pretext of asking for my advice, he called and borrowed£10 from me.
他以向我讨教为借口,上门找我借了十英镑。
■He used his sick as a pretext for not going to school.
他以喉痛作为不去学校的借口。
■He remained home on [under] the pretext of being sick.
他以生病为借口 [托辞生病] 留在家里。
■He didn't attend that meeting under the pretext of sickness.
他以生病为借口,没参加那个会议。
■He didn't attend the meeting under the pretext of sickness.
他以病为借口,没参加会议。
■He refused to see them on one pretext or another.
他以种种借口拒绝见他们。
■He came to see me on the pretext of asking my advice.
他以请我指教为借口来看我。
■He came to see me under the pretext of asking my advice when he really wanted to borrow money.
他以请我指教为藉口前来看我,其实是想借钱。
■He came to see me on/under the pretext of asking my advice when he really wanted to borrow money.
他以请我指教为藉口前来看我,其实是想借钱。
■He stayed away on the pretext of ill health.
他以身体不佳为借口而避开。
■He stayed away under the pretext of ill health.
他以身体不佳为借口而避开了。
■This was designed to provide a pretext for direct intervention.
他们企图以此为借口直接进行干预。
■They would call Sarah in, on a pretext, and watch her face;if she had been betraying them to Mr. Burgess, it would show in her manner.
他们找个借口叫莎拉来,察言观色:假如她向伯杰斯先生出卖了他们,从她的行为举止就能看得出来。
■The reason for their relegation was that five Wangs regarded them as Empress Wu's force, so five Wangs relegated them on the pretext that they had fawned on two Zhangs.
他们遭贬的真正原因是:五王视他们为武后势力,以“坐附二张”为借口,予以打击。
■He cheated me under the pretext of friendship.
他借口友谊欺骗了我。
■He left early, on the pretext of having another appointment.
他借口另有约会,提前走了。
■He used his headache as a pretext for not going to school.
他借口头疼而不去上学。
■He went away on the pretext (excuse) of a headache.
他借口头疼走了。
■He left the party early on the pretext of having work to do.
他借口有事要处理,早早离开了聚会。
■He was absent from school on the pretext that he was ill.
他借口病了没上学。
■He absented himself from a meeting on some pretext.
他借故不去开会。