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

• France, of course, will never surrender its global pretensions.
  当然，法国永远不会放弃自己的国际权力。
• 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。
• 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。
• The cats must unsheath their claws and lacerate the kings, ripping away their regal pretensions.
  猫必须伸出爪子去抓挠国王，撕破他们帝王式的自命不凡。
• Don Quixote derides the stupidity of knights Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.
  《堂吉诃德》使骑士看起来愚蠢可笑；《奇妙的新世界》嘲弄了科学的自命不凡；《温和的建议》戏剧性地提倡同类相食来消灭饥饿。
• 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。
• She makes no pretensions to beauty.
  她不自诩为美人。
• 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。
• 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。
• It throws shit on all pretensions and fictions.
  它轻视一切伪装和虚构。