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

• She makes no pretensions to beauty.
  她不自诩为美人。
• There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom.
  在历史上，只有一种力量能够打破仇恨和怨忿的束缚，撕下暴君的伪装，满足那些宽容大度的正派人士的愿望，那就是人类自由的力量。
• 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。
• And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.
  我们能者是政治上能。自命有统治能力的统治阶级，也可笑。
• The crisis exploded Britain's lingering imperial pretensions, and hastened the independence of its colonies.
  苏伊士运河危机暴露了英国流连不肯放弃其帝国虚荣，加速了其殖民地的独立行为。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。