under the pretence of

Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears.

她假装点蜡烛，避开他消失了。

From Mar. 1933 to Feb. 1935, backed up by the Nazi leaders, Heye, a German merchant, staged a farce of trying to acknowledge the puppet Manchuria government under the pretence of developing trade in the Far East.

1933年3月-1935年2月，德国商人海耶在纳粹党领导人的支持下，以开拓远东贸易名义，演出了一场企图承认伪满洲国的闹剧。

Those people slapped together an outfit and under the pretence of collecting for charity, bluffed and cheated their way around.

几个人搭了个草台班子，打着慈善捐款的幌子到处招摇撞骗。

Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.

全球最大劳动力管理解决方案商克罗诺思公司最近的一项调查显示，中国和印度的员工更易以生病为借口请假翘班，而法国的员工则很少会这样做。

Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears

她假装点蜡烛，避开他消失了。