false pretences

基本解釋

The mischief that it does at present is produced by our efforts to ignore it, or to smother it under a heap of sentimental lies and false pretences.
目前，通過(guò)我們努力的忽略這個(gè)事實(shí)，亦或是把事實(shí)掩蓋在一堆情感謊言和虛假偽裝之下，這出可笑的鬧劇在不斷地上演著。
The economy will recover its equilibrium only when workers' expectations are fulfilled, prices turn out as anticipated, and they no longer sell their labour under false pretences.
只有當(dāng)雇員們的期望得到充分滿(mǎn)足、物價(jià)一如預(yù)期以及他們不再虛假的出賣(mài)勞動(dòng)力后，經(jīng)濟(jì)才將會(huì)重新趨于均衡。
The investigators used sub-contractors who engaged in “pretexting”: the use of false pretences to obtain personal information—in this case, the telephone records of board members and nine journalists.
消息即出，外界反映激烈。調(diào)查公司雇傭的人員使用了借用虛假理由獲取個(gè)人信息的 “假托”手段（pretexting），即在該事件中獲得董事會(huì)成員及九名記者的電話(huà)記錄。

They have increasingly suggested, or stated outright, that the war was fought under false pretences.
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Immigrants who arrive under false pretences cannot expect a warm welcome.
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a former name for deception &rarrsee obtaining by deception
If you do something under false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.