All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Then you married me on false pretences. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Then you married me on false pretences? 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Their usual pretences are, sometimes the high price of provisions, sometimes the great profit which their masters make by their work. 亚当·斯密.国富论.