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
- She's a down-to-earth sort of woman with no pretensions.
她是那种毫不做作的、朴实的女人。 - 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。 - He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.
他并不以这方面专家自居。 - The cats must unsheath their claws and lacerate the kings, ripping away their regal pretensions.
猫必须伸出爪子去抓挠国王,撕破他们帝王式的自命不凡。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - A home is just a house with pretensions.
家,就是一个装满了虚荣的房子。 - His social pretensions make him appear ridiculous.
他冒充上流社会人士而出尽洋相。