A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
借口
Pretense
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
没有经济平等的政治自由是一种借口、一种骗局、一种谎言;工人们不想撒谎。
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
我表现出来的大部分自信，尤其是受到午间酒的影响时，只是一种伪装。
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
使一个破产的人烦恼的与其说是贫穷，还不如说是矫饰——在骄傲的头脑和空虚的钱包之间挣扎——必须很快结束的空虚的表演。
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
今天的基本断层线不是不同信仰的人之间的断层线，而是持有这些信仰的人之间的断层线，这些人的信仰带有不确定性，而持有这些信仰的人的信仰带有确定性。