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。
• China shall clarify relevant procedural issues and supplementary and cooperative systems as soon as possible, purporting to establish and improve the legal system of non-extradition of the capital fugitives of China.
  中国应尽早明确有关的程序性问题和配套制度，建立和完善中国的死刑犯不引渡制度。
• Cindy Adams ( Columnist): He's not purporting to be Mother Teresa.
  辛迪•亚当斯（专栏作家）：他无意成为德兰修女。
• The State Department countered the accusation with a lizard of statistics purporting to show improvement.
  国务院用自称能说明工作改进的数据驳斥指责。
• The overarching theme was a group of puppets purporting to be a pop band.
  该广告的大主题是一组号称是一个流行乐队的玩偶。
• 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。
• A letter purporting to come from his father
  声称来自他父亲的一封信
• Many tales were accompanied with photos purporting to show spiders half the size of a human.
  许多故事都附有说明这种蜘蛛有人体一半大小的图片。
• 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。