formalHIDE/NOT SHOW the way someone or something appears to be, which hides the truth or is only temporary 伪装,外表,幌子
in/under the guise of something
They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
他们挂着职业介绍所的牌子从事毒品走私活动。
It’s the same idea in a different guise.
还是一样的观点,只是形式不同。
Examples from the Corpus
guise• Some rumours, he says, have survived for centuries, merely by mutating and reappearing in a different guise.• Joanne Tearle finds that the bluechiploan comes in many guises and choosing one may be your greatest problem.• But the approach itself is never questioned, so the abuses simply resurface later in a new guise.• He may also appear in the guise of a small grey water-horse or a lamb, always with an unusually long tail.• Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints.• Quietly, under the guise of equipment problems, he tried four weeks, then five.• For the rest he has persisted in wearing the guise of a vassal before his overlord.