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

• 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？
• Don Quixote derides the stupidity of knights Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.
  《堂吉诃德》使骑士看起来愚蠢可笑；《奇妙的新世界》嘲弄了科学的自命不凡；《温和的建议》戏剧性地提倡同类相食来消灭饥饿。
• He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
  他自以为爱好文学和唯物主义。
• They also set about shoring up their legal claim against Portugal's pretensions to the newly discovered lands.
  他们开始指控葡萄牙觊觎西班牙发现的新大陆。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。