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

• 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。
• They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions.
  他们害怕暴露自己的弱点，因此将自己隐藏在层层骄傲和矫饰之下。
• 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。
• Let Britain waive her pretensions to the continent, or the continent throw off the dependence, and we should be peace with France and Spain, were they at war with Britain.
  让英国放弃她在北美大陆的权利，或者北美大陆独立起来；我们应该与法国和西班牙和平共处&只要他们与英国交战。
• 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。
• I have no pretensions to expertise in this held.
  我称不上是这个领域的专家。
• 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。
• We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.
  我们把自己恣肆狂妄的心胸稍稍加以收敛。
• 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。