purports

英 [pəˈpɔːts]

美 [pərˈpɔːrts]

v.  自称; 标榜
purport的第三人称单数

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

• Maxwell purports that in every culture, society and nation, people ask those three questions of their leaders, and they do so continually.
  麦克斯韦尔表示，在任何一种文化、社会和国家中，人们都会一直关注这三个问题。
• The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural.
  巫术通过祁求神灵而达到得以控制或预测自然事件、结果或者力量目的手段。
• The theory complements the "sociometer model" that purports self-esteem has evolved as a marker for people's social status.
  这个理论填补了“社会关系测量学模式”的空白，该模式声称：自尊已逐渐成为人们社会地位的标识。
• Beijing cannot dream of selling down its Treasury holdings without triggering the very dollar collapse it purports to dread.
  北京不可能幻想抛售所持美国国债，而不会引发它据称担心的美元崩溃。
• The letter purports to express people's opinion.
  这封信声称是表达民众的意见。
• The party purports to be the alternative government in britain.
  该党声称自己是英国现有政府的另一选择。
• As a result, each book purports to present something new and interesting about the authors'interpretations of the values and principles.
  这就导致几乎每一本书都宣称自己介绍了一些作者关于价值和原则的新的有趣的想法。
• This does a disservice to the very public for which CSPI purports to serve.
  这对于CSPI的服务对象来说反而是一种伤害行为。
• So nowadays doing some exploration on wholesale enterprises operation innovation has theoretical and practical purports.
  因而在当前的形势下，对批发企业经营创新的探索有着重要的理论与现实意义。
• The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.
  商业广告中所宣扬的那种幸福观，其致命的缺陷就在于这样一个事实，即它宣称，一切幸福皆唾手可得，不费吹灰之力。