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

• Quite early in its career Buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the Brahmins.
  佛教创立之初，很快就同婆罗门日益增长的矫饰自负发生了冲突。
• She makes no pretensions to beauty.
  她不自诩为美人。
• He entertained his readers by lampooning the pretensions of the rich
  他以冷嘲热讽自以为是的有钱人来愉悦读者。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• France, of course, will never surrender its global pretensions.
  当然，法国永远不会放弃自己的国际权力。
• There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom.
  在历史上，只有一种力量能够打破仇恨和怨忿的束缚，撕下暴君的伪装，满足那些宽容大度的正派人士的愿望，那就是人类自由的力量。
• He never aimed at mere effect, and had none of the little tricks and pretensions of second-rate reputations.
  他从不追求单纯的成功，毫无享有第二流声望的那种人的花俏与做作。