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

• 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。
• He never aimed at mere effect, and had none of the little tricks and pretensions of second-rate reputations.
  他从不追求单纯的成功，毫无享有第二流声望的那种人的花俏与做作。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.
  他们在正义上的专业训练，只是他们的专业，或说自命表达其自负与野心。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It throws shit on all pretensions and fictions.
  它轻视一切伪装和虚构。