pretext
/ˈpɹiːtɛkst/ 动词 C2中文： 找借口、以…为借口
- To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else. · The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.
He/she/it pretexts · 过去式 pretexted · 过去分词 pretexted · -ing形式 pretexting
动词形式
- 原形
- pretext
- He/she/it
- pretexts
- 过去式
- pretexted
- 过去分词
- pretexted
- -ing形式
- pretexting
来自图书馆
I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.” The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
He says nothing to anyone, but he arranges that he shall go out on some pretext to see his client that night.
But when I came to think the matter over my conscience reproached me bitterly for having on any pretext allowed him to go out of my sight.
Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.”
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