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

• The party purports to be the alternative government in britain.
  该党声称自己是英国现有政府的另一选择。
• 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。
• I invite the House to vote against the Government's motion and not to support a motion which purports to take us faster into a Community which cannot reflect the aspirations of those who pur us here.
  我在此敦请下院投票反对政府议案，你们不该支持一个自诩要把我们尽快带入欧共体的议案，因为这个欧共体不能反映选派我们来这里的人民的意愿。
• A new process has been reported recently, which purports to make electrolytic treatment of dilute copper cyanide solutions economically attractive.
  最近报道了一个新的方法，意欲使电解处理稀氰化铜溶液在经济上更吸引人。
• The development of environmental manage measure, the origin and progress, principles, characteristics, purports, basic technique, application and limits of life-cycle assessment were summarized.
  本文系统地概述了环境管理工具的发展，生命周期评价的起源和发展，思想框架，主要特点、意义、评价基本方法及其应用、局限性。
• The letter purports to express people's opinion.
  这封信声称是表达民众的意见。
• As a result, each book purports to present something new and interesting about the authors'interpretations of the values and principles.
  这就导致几乎每一本书都宣称自己介绍了一些作者关于价值和原则的新的有趣的想法。
• This does a disservice to the very public for which CSPI purports to serve.
  这对于CSPI的服务对象来说反而是一种伤害行为。
• A grand design that purports to unite disparate elements.
  旨在把根本不同的要素结合起来的一项宏伟设计。
• 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。