pretentiousness

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BNC.33697 / COCA.36616

英英释义

noun

• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
  Synonym:pretensionlargeness
• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
  Synonym:ostentationostentatiousnesspompositypompousnesspuffinesssplashinessinflation

双语例句

• Simple but grandiose architecture; it often suggests pretentiousness, affectation, or pompousness
  简洁但巨大的建筑；其常暗指自以为是，虚假或自傲
• I think in those days we were a little shy of our emotions, and the fear of ridicule tempered the more obvious forms of pretentiousness.
  我想在过去的日子里我们都羞于使自己的感情外露，因为怕人嘲笑，所以都约束着自己不给人以傲慢自大的印象。
• Needless to say, the idea of attaining fame and position for oneself by pretentiousness is even more contemptible.
  至于以装腔作势来达到名誉和地位的目的，那更是卑劣的念头，不待说的了。
• Such pretentiousness cannot reflect truth but is an obstacle to truth.
  这种装腔作势的东西，不能反映真理，而是妨害真理的。
• I'm sick of his pompousness and pretentiousness.
  我很厌恶他的自负与装腔作势。