purporting

英 [pəˈpɔːtɪŋ]

美 [pərˈpɔːrtɪŋ]

v.  自称; 标榜
purport的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 声称；自称；标榜
  If you say that someone or somethingpurports todo or be a particular thing, you mean that they claim to do or be that thing, although you may not always believe that claim.
  1. ...a book that purports to tell the whole truth.
     声称要讲述全部事实的一本书

双语例句

• Professor Finkelstein's comments came on the same day a video emerged purporting to show'a mothership and its fleet'zipping around in the clouds above a BBC building in central London.
  Finkelstein发表这一言论的同一天，在英国有人拍下了这样一段视频画面，在伦敦市中心的英国广播公司BBC的大楼上空，在云层之上出现了疑似外太空飞船和其舰队的踪迹。
• There were advertisements for cosmetics purporting to delay the development of wrinkles.
  有些化妆品广告煞有介事地声称能延缓皱纹的出现。
• The Daily Mail included photographs purporting to be the Queen gambling on horse racing amongst her subjects at a local Bookmaker.
  《每日邮报》刊图指出，英国女王和她的臣民们在当地的一家博彩店里赌马。
• Any document purporting to be a document duly executed under the common seal of the Council shall, unless there is evidence to the contrary, be deemed to be a document so executed and shall be received in evidence without further proof.
  任何看来是用评审局法团印章妥为签立的文件，除非有相反证据，否则须视作妥为签立的文件，且无须其它证明而须接受为证据。
• If Oswald or someone purporting to be oswald.
  若奥斯华或宣称是奥斯华的人。
• The person so charged inspected an identity card or passport purporting to be the identity card or passport of the juvenile and believed on reasonable grounds that the juvenile was not a juvenile;
  被告人曾查阅声称为有关青少年之身份证或护照，并有充分理由相信该人并非为青少年；
• China is locked in a Dale Carnegie era, with bookstore shelves dominated by titles purporting to explain how to gain a leg up.
  中国进入了戴尔·卡内基时代，书店的书架上满是“教导你如何获得成就的标题”的书籍。
• ( law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
  （法律）证明被告不可能犯指控罪行的辩护。
• Therefore, much was made of a recent Pew Research poll purporting to show a sharp rise in conflicts between rich and poor.
  因此，皮尤研究中心（PewResearch）最近一项旨在表明贫富之间冲突急剧上升的调查就显得特别耐人寻味。
• Various fraudulent schemes purporting to be from or associated with the World Health Organization ( WHO), have been circulating.
  各种声称来自或与世界卫生组织（世卫组织）有关联的欺诈计划在四处传播。