on the pretence of

on the pretence of以……为借口：Mary did not attend our musical evening on the pretence of illness，but the real reason was that she did not wish to make acquaintance with us.玛丽借口有病没有参加我们的音乐晚会，但真正的原因是她不愿意跟我们结识。

• real-worlds
• quantum-mechanical operator
• rhetorics
• cathouses
• Codex Alimentarius
• proprietarily
• slice of life
• rectorships
• inverse beta decay
• Vernoleninsk
• cupola
• laugh out of court
• enfoldment
• goniometries
• field focus
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• dactylogram
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• cry wolf
• arc lamps
• Toledoan
• Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig
• slap-up
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• the shakes
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