He left the party early on the pretext of having to work.

他借口有事要处理，早早离开了聚会。

He left the party early on the pretext of having work to do.

他借口有事要处理，早早离开了聚会。

This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections.

这给当局提供了一个取消选举的借口。

Very often landlords don't return tenants' deposits on the pretext that tenants have done damage to the house.

房东通常不退还租户的押金，借口是租户损坏了房子。

They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force.

他们需要一个用武力征服那个地区的托词。

The incident was used as a pretext for intervention in the area.

这次事件成了干涉那个地区的借口。

I was going to have him called away from the house on some pretext or other.

我当时正打算用什么借口，让人把他从房子里叫出去。

As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as a pretext for expounding on Black history.

正如罗森布拉特所指出的，对黑人作品的批评常常被用作阐述黑人历史的借口。

He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to shool.

他假托喉痛不到校上课。

The boy refuses to go to school on [under] the pretext of illness [an ailment, sickness].

这孩子装病不去上学。

Under the pretext of travelling on business, (some cadres) go holidaying and waste public money.

以出差为名，游山玩水，给国家造成浪费。

One must not push too far in descent under pretext of a return to reason.

不要借口恢复理智，而在下坡路上滑过了头。

Many think the non-existent weapons of mass destruction were a pretext, too.

很多人认为子虚乌有的大规模杀伤武器也不过是一个幌子。

Perhaps it really did fear that the aid effort might provide a pretext for invasion.

也许他们真的害怕援助会变成入侵的前奏。

Now, don't use this as a pretext to write code that performs lousy, just don't overdo it.

而现在，我们再也不能以这样的理由为编写出性能糟糕的代码寻求托辞了，当然，我们也不能矫枉过正。

As servants of God live as free people yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

你们虽是自由的，却不可借着自由遮盖恶毒，总要作神的仆人。

The pretext is to prevent wires getting crossed, as happened during the Northern Rock fiasco.

这样做的理由是为了避免在北Rock惨败时发生误会。

Russia has repeatedly accused Georgia of breaking the ceasefire agreement: that could be one pretext.

俄罗斯就不断指责格鲁吉亚破坏停火协议——这可能只是个借口。

Men are particularly good at this; usually on the pretext they are “just keeping their head down”.

男性尤其爱生闷气；通常前奏一开唱，他们就“闷闷不乐地垂下了头”。

My crush, Addie, and I have run out of things to talk about so I will pretext to avoid any awkward silences.

我的恋人，安迪和我已经没有什么可谈的了，所以我要找个借口来避免尴尬的沉默。

No man of vice can be condemned unless he ceases to look upon vice as a pretext and turns it into a goal.

我们不能去责难一个邪恶的人，除非他不再将邪恶看作借口而是将其变为最终目标。

You'll notice that the earlier scenarios involve having a pretext or talking to people who have to talk with you.

你会留意到，早先的场景都涉及到借口或是跟那些不得不与你说话的人聊天。

He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw him examining the gate with great attention.

他支吾了几句，便离开她去园子里，珂赛特望见他在仔仔细细地检查那道铁栏门。

It marked an aggressive escalation in Iran's enrichment programme and its only civilian pretext to fuel the reactor.

这表明伊朗的浓缩计划将进一步升级，民用只不过是为反应堆提供燃料的一个借口。

Maybe they’re wrong, of course, or maybe that’s a pretext offered to squelch a threat to their corporate paymasters.

可能他们错了，当然，也可能那只是发出对他们公司金主威胁一个的序幕。

The ECB might launch a programme of bond-buying on the pretext that a deep recession in the euro area threatens deflation.

欧洲央行可以利用防止欧元区陷入深刻衰退为借口，启动一项债券购买计划。

And some of the anxiety about mining stocks is merely a pretext to preach the merits of actively managed funds, with higher fees.

而对矿业股的忧虑，有些不过是一个借口，为了鼓吹收取更高费用的、积极管理的基金的价值。

China strongly opposes the practice of interfering in other's internal affairs under the pretext of the death penalty issue.

中方坚决反对利用死刑问题干涉他国内政的做法。

One even hinted that some billboards might be taken down on the pretext that they were poorly made and might fall and cause accidents.

有人甚至暗示，一些广告牌可能会以制作粗糙或存在坍倒和引发事故危险为由遭到撤除。