" Make her come here on some pretext or other" .

“以某种借口让她来这里” 。

Geissler had taken out his pocket-book on some pretext or other, and any one could see that it was stuffed full of notes.

盖斯勒出于某种借口拿出了他的皮夹， 任何人都可以看出里面塞满了笔记。

" He can hardly do that without some formality, " she said quietly; " but he might possibly get up a court-martial on some pretext or other, and justify himself afterwards by saying that the peace of the town required it" .

“如果没有一些正式的形式，他几乎不能这样做，”她平静地说。 “但他可能会以某种借口被送上军事法庭，然后为自己辩解说，为了城市的和平需要这样做”。