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

• 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 tape recording purports to be of a conversation between the princess and a secret admirer.
  这录音带据称是王妃和她的一个秘密爱慕者之间的谈话。
• 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。
• 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。
• In too many aspects it looks like a charter for corporate America rather than the high-level trade agreement it purports to be.
  在太多方面，TPP看起来更像是颁给美国企业的许可证，而非其声称的那种高规格贸易协定。
• The document purports to be official but is really private.
  那份文件据称是官方的，但实际上是私人的。
• 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。
• A new process has been reported recently, which purports to make electrolytic treatment of dilute copper cyanide solutions economically attractive.
  最近报道了一个新的方法，意欲使电解处理稀氰化铜溶液在经济上更吸引人。
• I didn't read it all but I think the purports of the letter was that he will not be returning for at least a year.
  我没有仔细读，但我想这封信的大意是他至少一年内不会回来。
• A grand design that purports to unite disparate elements.
  旨在把根本不同的要素结合起来的一项宏伟设计。