1. What you sow——you reap but pretence. 除了借口，你播种什么——就收获什么。
2. Any such pretence on his part would have been simply ridiculous . 他那方面的任何这种冒充，都会是荒谬可笑的。
3. That very morning, not having received the letter she awaited, she had resolved to throw off all pretence of resentment and come. 就在那天早晨，她没有收到期待中的那封信，她决定抛开所有假装的怨恨而回家来。
英英解释
n.
1. a false or unsupportable quality
2. an artful or simulated semblance
3. pretending with intention to deceive
4. imaginative intellectual play
5. the act of giving a false appearance
