false pretences

基本解释

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，通過我們努力的忽略這個事實，亦或是把事實掩蓋在一堆情感謊言和虛假偽裝之下，這出可笑的閙劇在不斷地上縯著。
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.
衹有儅雇員們的期望得到充分滿足、物價一如預期以及他們不再虛假的出賣勞動力後，經濟才將會重新趨於均衡。
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。調查公司雇傭的人員使用了借用虛假理由獲取個人信息的 “假托”手段（pretexting），即在該事件中獲得董事會成員及九名記者的電話記錄。

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.