purports

英 [pəˈpɔːts]

美 [pərˈpɔːrts]

v.  自称; 标榜
purport的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 声称；自称；标榜
  If you say that someone or somethingpurports todo or be a particular thing, you mean that they claim to do or be that thing, although you may not always believe that claim.
  1. ...a book that purports to tell the whole truth.
     声称要讲述全部事实的一本书

双语例句

• Selfish behavior that purports to be altruistic.
  自称是利他主义的自私行为。
• I didn't read it all but I think the purports of the letter was that he will not be returning for at least a year.
  我没有仔细读，但我想这封信的大意是他至少一年内不会回来。
• The document purports to be official but is really private.
  那份文件据称是官方的，但实际上是私人的。
• The other priority should be to do what the Franco-German legislation purports to do, but on a grander scale: provide adequate insurance that banks do not bring down the economy and hold taxpayers at ransom.
  另一优先事务是要做到法德立法提案中声称要做的事，不过要采取重拳：构建充分的保障机制，防止银行拖累经济和“勒索”纳税人。
• The paper purports to make an analysis of the construction of a new interpretation model and its implication in the perspective of text linguistics.
  本文旨在从语篇语言学的视角对口译模式构建及其启示进行分析。
• In too many aspects it looks like a charter for corporate America rather than the high-level trade agreement it purports to be.
  在太多方面，TPP看起来更像是颁给美国企业的许可证，而非其声称的那种高规格贸易协定。
• Maxwell purports that in every culture, society and nation, people ask those three questions of their leaders, and they do so continually.
  麦克斯韦尔表示，在任何一种文化、社会和国家中，人们都会一直关注这三个问题。
• Part of their proof is the picture below, which purports to have been taken inside the ark.
  部分证据就是下面的照片，据说是在方舟内部拍照的。
• The document purports to is an official statement.
  该文件据称是一项正式声明。
• The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural.
  巫术通过祁求神灵而达到得以控制或预测自然事件、结果或者力量目的手段。