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.
  1. 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。
  2. We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.
     我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。
• N-UNCOUNT 声称；标榜；自称
  If someone haspretensions tosomething, they claim to be or do that thing.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• His social pretensions make him appear ridiculous.
  他冒充上流社会人士而出尽洋相。
• He abandoned all divine pretensions and put Christian symbols on the shields and banners of his troops.
  他抛弃所有神授的权利，把基督教的标志放在他的军队的盾牌和旗帜上。
• 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。
• He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
  他自以为爱好文学和唯物主义。
• 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。
• The crisis exploded Britain's lingering imperial pretensions, and hastened the independence of its colonies.
  苏伊士运河危机暴露了英国流连不肯放弃其帝国虚荣，加速了其殖民地的独立行为。
• Let Britain waive her pretensions to the continent, or the continent throw off the dependence, and we should be peace with France and Spain, were they at war with Britain.
  让英国放弃她在北美大陆的权利，或者北美大陆独立起来；我们应该与法国和西班牙和平共处&只要他们与英国交战。
• Its intellectual pretensions are based more on artistic manipulation than vision.
  现代主义智力上的自负更多的是操纵艺术而不是以艺术的洞察力为基础。
• 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？