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

• I have no pretensions to expertise in this held.
  我称不上是这个领域的专家。
• 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。
• 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？
• He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.
  他并不以这方面专家自居。
• 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。
• She makes no pretensions to beauty.
  她不自诩为美人。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 entertained his readers by lampooning the pretensions of the rich
  他以冷嘲热讽自以为是的有钱人来愉悦读者。