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 .

一种可能是他想把这个暂时的危机当做政府永久扩张规模的借口。