If I accepted the legacy, I would be taking money under false pretences. I'd be stealing.

如果我接受遗产，就是以欺骗手段获取财产。相当于盗窃。

He was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.

【FALSE】他被指控骗钱。

" Well-why did you let it be under false pretences? You have only yourself to blame, " he said mischievously.

“好吧——你为什么让它成为虚假的借口？你只能怪自己， ” 他恶作剧地说。

As for the women, they indignantly felt that they had been had on false pretences–had by a wretched little man, who had had alcohol poured into his bottle by mistake–by a creature with a Gamma-Minus physique.

女士们更是生气，认为是听信了假话——叫一个恶劣的小不点涮了, 那人的瓶子被误加了酒精，只长了个伽玛减的个头。

They walk home together, Isak enjoying new admiration on false pretences; 'twas something he had not deserved, but it tasted but little different from the real thing.

他们一起走回家，白伊萨对虚伪的伪装有了新的钦佩；那不是他应得的东西，但尝起来和真东西没什么区别。

This afternoon during my temporary absence in London on an important question of romance, he obtained admission to my house by means of the false pretence of being my brother.

今天下午，在我因重要的浪漫问题暂时离开伦敦期间， 他假装是我的兄弟， 获得了进入我家的许可。

" But I wonder-do you think it is really so with us? I know it is generally. But I have an uncomfortable feeling that my freedom has been obtained under false pretences" !

“但我想知道——你认为我们真的是这样吗？我知道一般都是这样。但我有一种不舒服的感觉， 我的自由是在虚假的借口下获得的” ！

Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong.

撇开她自己的意愿不谈，她与蒂尔尼小姐的婚约第二次失败，收回五分钟前自愿作出的承诺，而且还是假借口，这一定是错误的。