I could easily escape discomfort, temporarily, by answering email or browsing the web under the pretense of so-called "research".

通过回复电子邮件或以所谓的“研究”为名浏览网页，我可以很容易地暂时摆脱掉不适感。

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Greeley provided a humorous description of himself, written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary.

格里利用幽默的话语对自己进行了描述，并假装这是他宿敌的作品。

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Under this pretense, they asked them to write short essays about a time in their lives when they had ostracized someone;

在这个幌子下，他们要求这群人写一次他们生活中排斥某人的经历；

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Sometimes she sent me over to check up on him under the pretense of bringing him medicine.

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Such half-truths are a pernicious way of lying because the whole truth is being hidden under a pretense of honesty.

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But, in the process, users were asked to indicate whether they had ever engaged in those activities, under the pretense that it might color their ratings.

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