Worse, in some cases there is no pretence of objectivity.

更糟的情况是，部分地区连客观现实都懒得粉饰了。

The furious pretence that Aunt Petunia had maintained all Harry's life—that there was no magic and no world other than the world she inhabited with Uncle Vernon—seemed to have fallen away.

哈利有生以来一直看着佩妮姨妈在很激烈地维护一种假相——魔法根本不存在，除了和弗农姨父共同生活的这个世界，根本不存在另一个世界——而现在这种假相似乎消失了。

Winners do not dedicate their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence, and manipulating others.

贏家不会置身于想像他们应当成为何种人的观念之中；相反，他们就是本真的自我，因此，他们不会费神费力地装模作样, 故作姿态，以及玩弄他人。

So she dropped any pretence of governing by committee.

因此，了由委员会统治国家的伪装。

No. I hate all the pretence of food that needn't be this fussy.

不喜欢。我讨厌所有花哨的食物，没必要这么挑剔。

" Did you say, " murmured Ron, putting his head close to Harry's on the pretence of helping himself to water from the jug on his bedside table, " that you were You-Know-Who? "

“你是说，”罗恩假装到床头柜拿水，把头凑近哈利问道，“你就是神秘人？”

As for the women, they indignantly felt that they had been had on false pretences–had by a wretched little man, who had had alcohol poured into his bottle by mistake–by a creature with a Gamma-Minus physique.

女士们更是生气，认为是听信了假话——叫一个恶劣的小不点涮了, 那人的瓶子被误加了，长了个伽玛减的个头。

The other scale had now become too heavy, which gave this upright judge a pretence to help himself to a mouthful from the second slice.

现在天平的另一端变得太重了，正好给这位正直的法官一个借口，让它咬了第二片奶酪一大口。

Yet, the crisis of the third century had so crippled the Roman world that the elaborate pretences of the principate were no longer necessary.

然而，第三世界危机已经使罗马世界陷入瘫痪，元首也就不再有必要遮遮掩掩。

Loiseau, under pretence of stretching his legs, went out to see if he could sell wine to the country dealers.

鸟先生推说要活动活动腿脚，到镇的小店去推销他的葡萄去了。

You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back.

你继父回来时，你一定要假装头疼，把自己关在房间里。

By the time Orwell graduated in 1921, he was ready to ditch the aristocratic pretences forever.

到 1921 年奥威尔毕业时，他已经准备好永远抛贵族的伪装。

If I accepted the legacy, I would be taking money under false pretences. I'd be stealing.

如果我接受遗产，就是以欺骗手段获取财产。相当于盗窃。

By this time we were within the shop or booth, which had a counter, and shelves on the walls, all very neat, though without any pretence of showiness, but otherwise not very different to what I had been used to.

这时候我们已经在商店或摊位里了，里面有柜台，墙有货架，一切都非常整洁，虽然没有任何炫耀的假装，但除此之外与我习惯的没什么不同。

She was extremely surprised at her brother's arrival; but he invented so probable a pretence for his journey, and conducted his plot so skilfully, that he drew her to make the first proposal herself of visiting Madam de Cleves.

对哥哥的到来感到非常惊讶。但是他为他的旅行编造了一个很可能的借口，并且巧妙地实施了他的阴谋，以至于他诱使第一个提议自己去拜访德克莱夫夫人。

The male makes a pretence of ferocity, and after having crooned softly for hours to his mate, suddenly ruffles his feathers and pursues her with what would pass for viciousness if she were not so easily and happily caught.

雄性假装凶猛，在对他的伴侣轻声低吟了几个小时之后，突然竖起他的羽毛，以一种如果不是那么容易和愉快地被抓住的话就会被认为是恶毒的方式来追逐。

In such an atmosphere, one made no great pretence of hard work. If the world wants hard work, the world must pay for it; and, if it will not pay, it has no fault to find with the worker.

在这样的气氛中，一个人毫不掩饰地努力工作。世人要劳苦，世人要付出代价；而且，如果它不付钱，它也没有责任找工人。

Margery made a pretence of reflecting—then fell to reflecting seriously; but the negative was ultimately as undisturbed as ever: she could not decide on anything she would like best in the world; it was too difficult, too sudden.

玛格丽假装在思考——然后开始认真地思考；但消极的一面最终还是一如既往地不受打扰：无法决定世界最喜欢的任何事情；太难了，太突然了。

Both were convinced that the purposed elopement must have been discovered: They doubted not but the malady of Agnes was a pretence, But they knew not by what means to rescue her from the hands of the Prioress.

两人都确信蓄意私奔一定已经被发现：他们不怀疑艾格尼丝的病是假的， 但他们不知道用什么方法可以把从女院长手中救出来。

Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong.

撇开自己的意愿不谈，再次在与蒂尔尼小姐的约定失败，主动撤销仅仅五分钟前做出的承诺，而且还是基于一个错误的理由，这肯定是不对的。