- 1. on the pretext of
- ♦ 他~有病没来开会。 He absented himself from the meeting on the pretext of illness.
- 2. under sb. else's name
- ♦ 这篇文章不是他写的, 是别人~他的名义发表的。 He didn't write the essay; somebody else did, and published it under his name.
- 3. by means of; through the medium of