They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force.他们想找借口用武力征服这个地区。They would now find some dubious pretext to restart the war.他们现在会找个蹩脚的借口重新发动战争。The incident was used as a pretext for intervention in the area.这次事件成了...
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.The aggressor troops marched into the neighbouring country on the pretext of searching for their missing soldier.侵略军...
On various pretexts they all moved off.他们以各种各样的借口纷纷离开了.She procrastinated her return on varions pretexts.她以多种借口推迟归程.How many plausible pretexts and fair reasons might they have found for submission!他们可以找出许多似是而非的借口,和冠冕堂皇的...