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，通过我们努力的忽略这个事实，亦或是把事实掩盖在一堆情感谎言和虚假伪装之下，这出可笑的闹剧在不断地上演着。
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.
只有当雇员们的期望得到充分满足、物价一如预期以及他们不再虚假的出卖劳动力后，经济才将会重新趋于均衡。
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。调查公司雇佣的人员使用了借用虚假理由获取个人信息的 “假托”手段（pretexting），即在该事件中获得董事会成员及九名记者的电话记录。

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.