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

• A home is just a house with pretensions.
  家，就是一个装满了虚荣的房子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His social pretensions make him appear ridiculous.
  他冒充上流社会人士而出尽洋相。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。