pretensions
英 [prɪˈtɛnʃənz]
美 [prəˈtɛnʃənz]
n. 虚饰; 虚夸; 自命; 声称; 标榜
pretension的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 自命不凡;虚荣;矫饰
If you say that someone haspretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.- Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world...
她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。 - We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.
我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。
- Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world...
- N-UNCOUNT 声称;标榜;自称
If someone haspretensions tosomething, they claim to be or do that thing.- The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status...
这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。 - It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party.
它仍然是一个压力集团,但不再自称是一个政党。
- The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status...
双语例句
- He's an actor of modest pretensions, quite content to play small parts.
他是个胸无大志的演员,演些小角色就心满意足了。 - The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status
这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。 - He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
他自以为爱好文学和唯物主义。 - I have no pretensions to expertise in this held.
我称不上是这个领域的专家。 - And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.
我们能者是政治上能。自命有统治能力的统治阶级,也可笑。 - You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
多亏你使我明白过来,我既然认定一位小姐值得我去博她欢心,我又一味对她自命不凡,那是万万办不到的。 - On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions.
对街有一家不怎么堂煌的饭馆。 - Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world
她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。 - What pretensions have we, upon your suppositions, to ascribe that attribute to the divine Being?
那么,根据你的假设,我们有什么理由将那一属性归因于神灵呢? - Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.
他们在正义上的专业训练,只是他们的专业,或说自命表达其自负与野心。