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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It throws shit on all pretensions and fictions.
  它轻视一切伪装和虚构。
• A home is just a house with pretensions.
  家，就是一个装满了虚荣的房子。
• 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。
• She makes no pretensions to beauty.
  她不自诩为美人。
• We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.
  我们把自己恣肆狂妄的心胸稍稍加以收敛。