But when lawyers measure themselves against the highest-paid ceos or the richest americans , it 's a pretense . "
但当律师将自己与高薪的CEO或其他有钱的美国人进行比较时，其实是在自吹自擂。”
It 's not a good pretense .
它不是一个好借口。
Sir , look at this pretense of want of room .
先生，瞧瞧这条缺少空间的借口吧。
Jealousy , that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive .
妒忌，一条恶龙，它在保护爱情生命安全的借口下杀死了爱情.
One possibility is that he wants to use a temporary crisis as a pretense for engineering a permanent increase in the size and scope of the government .
