pretensions
美 [prɪˈtenʃən] 
英 [prɪˈtenʃ(ə)n]
- n.抱负；自负；虚饰；虚荣
- v.【建】预张
- 网络虚荣做作；伪装；狂妄
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例句
Except his mild little wife there was not a thing with any pretensions to attractiveness about this household.
除了他那温柔娇小的太太之外，这个家庭没有一件东西配得上吸引人。
Edith Wilson was by no means the benign figure of her pretensions; the president far less than the hero of his aspirations.
伊迪丝·威尔逊决不是她自称的善良角色；总统也远非他所期望的英雄。
Leaving aside deliberate pretensions, a person tends to project the same personality through all means of communication.
除故意之外，一个人一般在所有交流方式中都展示了同样的个性。
Instead, the government looks unlikely either to surrender any of Britain's global pretensions or to be willing to pay for them.
但正相反，政府似乎既不愿意放弃英国的任何全球抱负，也不愿意为这些抱负埋单。
A series of rotating coalitions, however, would not measure up to European pretensions to being taken seriously in near abroad.
不过，一系列成员不断变换的联盟，不会让欧洲在周边地区得到重视的愿望成真。
Whatever his pretensions, Mr Lieberman is not ready to spearhead a revolt.
无论他用什么借口，利伯曼先生都不会带头反抗。
Trade up the Hudson river was controlled by an aristocratic elite with pretensions to secure a steamboat monopoly.
哈迪孙河上的贸易被贵族精英阶层以保护蒸汽机船独占权为名所控制。
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。
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。
During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.
在她订婚的日子里一个哪怕是最不善做作的姑娘也比在其他日子里期望更多的鲜花。
After that, perhaps, the pretensions of corporate America could never have had much hold on him.
也许，自那以后，美国企业团体就再也找不到针对麦克尔斯的把柄了。
It has no cut scenes, no back story, no pretensions.
该游戏没有场景切换，没有背景故事，没有主张。
In a country with massive energy needs, and pretensions to global-power status, that would be momentous.
在这样一个能源需求巨大，自命为世界大国的国家中，这份协议的意义极其重大。
To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.
感谢读者，用宽容的耳朵倾听了一个朴实平凡的故事。
He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.
他并不以这方面专家自居。
Most European nations are now embarking on budget cuts, further undermining pretensions to a separate European policy.
大部分欧洲国家如今着手削减预算，进一步损害了建立独立欧洲政策的主张。
On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses.
街对面有家不怎么豪华的饭店，是个胃口大但囊中羞涩的食客的好去处。
Without it there would be nothing left of its global pretensions.
没有欧洲，法国在全球就不会剩下多少话语权。
The internationalist pretensions of Hagi's most famous son notwithstanding, the foreigners living there these days are few and far between.
尽管这位萩城这位最著名的儿子享有着国际主义者的称号，目前居住在此的外国人却很稀少。
Besides, despite academia's pretensions to objectivity, it is as subject to political considerations as any area of human endeavour.
此外，尽管学术界的自命不凡客观存在着【客观】，但是，就像在人类努力的任何领域中它仍然是政治考量的对象。
During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.
在她订婚的日子里一个哪怕是最不善做作的姑娘也比在其他日子里期望更多的鲜花。
This kind of obscurity is not only pretensions; it is short-sighted.
这种含糊其词不仅显得自命不凡，而且缺乏远见。
Japan was a commercial power without imperial pretensions; China is both.
日本只有经济实力，没有发展帝国实力的权力；中国两者皆有。
He let slip that he wanted to be the "vicar" of foreign policy, a word with pope-size pretensions.
他无意中说想当外交政策的“主教”，这个称号真是自命不凡。
But they are increasingly open in challenging the G20's pretensions to be a "steering committee for the world" .
但这些国家正越来越公开地挑战G20要成为“世界筹划指导委员会”的主张。
The Muslim Brotherhood, milder than the Salafists but with pretensions to represent orthodoxy, has itself spun off new political trends.
穆斯林兄弟会较原教旨主义者温和，但自居正统，自己从新的政治潮流剥离出来。
Hitherto, the rulers of emerging countries disliked the west's pretensions, but respected its competence.
迄今为止，新兴市场国家的统治者虽然不喜欢西方世界的装腔作势，却尊重其能力。
But despite pretensions to latter-day phrenology, they remain an abstraction, an imperfect bridge from brain to mind.
尽管它们自命为当代颅相学，但仍留下抽象过程未解，从脑到心的桥梁还不完整。
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。
it was a gratuitous, that is, an artistic activity, though with few pretensions to being an art.
那是一种无报酬的，也即艺术的活动，尽管并没有多少要自命为艺术的意思。
His pretensions to judge upon such matters filled her with scorn.
他对这类事物装模作样的评判使她反感。
It should not be enforced in any country with democratic pretensions.
在任何一个民主国家，它不应是强制性的。
what pretensions have we, upon your suppositions, to ascribe that attribute to the divine Being?
那么，根据你的假设，我们有什么理由将那一属性归因于神灵呢？。
China's experience with Japan, another neighbour with global pretensions, showed that all too clearly.
中国与日本这个有着全球抱负的邻国打交道的经历，早已让这一切表露无遗。
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。
For the Chinese, eating goes beyond the pure necessity of nourishment, and has little in common with our gourmet pretensions.
对中国人来说，就餐不仅仅是单纯的为了营养，和我们为了追求美食家的称号也不近相同。
My literary pretensions made C splutter with laughter, but poetry weaves a potent spell.
我木讷的搞怪做作让C捧腹大笑。但是诗歌却编织了一个强有力的诅咒。
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。
This is no longer a world. It is simply a battlefield with pretensions of something more.
这已经不再是一个世界，它已经成了某种矫饰的理想的战场。
Despite its green pretensions, Stuttgart 21 will not move traffic from road to rail, says Gerhard Pfeifer of BUND, a pressure group.
“尽管它具有环保主张的意义，但斯图加特21项目不会使公路运输转到铁路上来。”来自压力集团BUND的GerhardPfeifer说。
It's word play and image play, wakeful dreams--made the same way as sleep dreams. It's lies and pretensions.
它是文字游戏和图象戏剧，警着的梦—与睡眠梦想一样。它是谎言和假想。它是销售。
Such events have fed the view that the government's ethical pretensions have never amounted to much and were naive to begin with.
这些事件催生了这样的观点：英国政府对道德的主张从来都是不重要的，而且从一开始那就是一个幼稚的主张。
