pretensions是什么意思？

pretensions

• n. 自称( pretension的名词复数 )，自命不凡，要求，权力；

例句

• have no pretensions to the title 配不上这个称号
• He makes no pretensions to skill. 他并不自以为有技能。
• And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too. 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.
• You know its pretensions . They give themselves the air of demigods. 你们也知道他们如何盛气凌人,自比神明.
• The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class. 这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。
• 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 is endearingly free of pretensions. 她丝毫不做作，很讨人喜爱。
• 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。
• 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。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰
  If you say that someone has pretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.
  例句
  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。 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 has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing.
  例句
  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 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。