pretense

相關對話：

1. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
   虛構，捏造虛構作品或捏造藉口的行為
2. Playful or fanciful pretense.
   好玩的或者古怪的裝扮
3. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
   捏造，想像虛構的作品或託詞，並不代表是真實的，而是被編造出來的
4. It is merely a pretense.
   這只是託詞而已。

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英文解釋：

名詞 pretense:

1. the act of giving a false appearance
   同義詞：pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
2. pretending with intention to deceive
   同義詞：pretence, feigning, dissembling
3. imaginative intellectual play
   同義詞：pretence, make-believe
4. a false or unsupportable quality
   同義詞：pretension, pretence
5. an artful or simulated semblance
   同義詞：guise, pretence, pretext