Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad. [+ of]

韋蘭假裝在便箋薄上做筆記。

We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better.

我們只得一直假裝情形在好轉。

The government abandoned any pretence of reform.

政府不再裝模作樣地進行改革。

I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences.

我再也不能和一個靠謊言騙我結婚的男人繼續生活下去了。

Conrad had been imprisoned for a year for gaining money by false pretences.

康拉德因爲詐騙錢財已經坐了一年的牢。