pretension

英 [prɪˈtenʃn]

美 [prɪˈtenʃn]

n.  虚饰; 虚夸; 自命; 声称; 标榜

复数：pretensions　

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Collins.1 / BNC.11562 / COCA.14551

牛津词典

noun

• 虚饰；虚夸
  the act of trying to appear more important, intelligent, etc. than you are in order to impress other people
  1. intellectual pretensions
     装作有知识
  2. 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。
  3. He spoke without pretension.
     他有话直说，不装相。
• 自命；声称；标榜
  a claim to be or to do sth
  1. a building with no pretensions to architectural merit
     没有刻意表现建筑特色的楼房
  2. The movie makes no pretension to reproduce life.
     这部电影并未标榜重现了真实生活。

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。

英英释义

noun

• a false or unsupportable quality
  Synonym:pretensepretence
• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
  Synonym:pretentiousnesslargeness
• the advancing of a claim
  1. his pretension to the crown
  2. the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort

双语例句

• Since the1990s, the adaptive response of television media to the Internet context has changed from pretension to combination.
  电视媒体对网络语境的适应经历了从俯视到迎合的过程。
• 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。
• He finds human foibles endearing, but is unforgiving of pretension.
  他觉得人性的弱点很可爱，但不能容忍惺惺作态。
• Force Balance Characteristics and Pretension Design of Asymmetric Cable Net Parabolic Antenna
  非对称索网抛物面天线力平衡特性及预拉力设计
• The bi-prestressed concrete is a compound prestressed concrete, we could make whose compressive area bear pretension and tensile area bear compressive stress.
  双预应力混凝土结构是在混凝土构件的受压区施加预拉应力，受拉区施加预压应力的复合预应力混凝土结构。
• No& said Darcy, I have made no such pretension.
  不，达西说，我并没有说过这种装场面的话。
• Intellectual pretension was never one of his vices.
  他从来不附庸风雅。
• The pretension of bolts directly affects the deformation form of the deformation of bulging, and the sealing condition between the exchanger thermal sheet spaces.
  而螺栓的预紧力直接影响这种鼓胀变形的形式和板片间的密封状态。
• The world is his, who can see through its pretension.
  这世界是他的，他看穿了它的假面。
• I make no pretension to skill as an artist, but I enjoy painting.
  我并不自命有画家的技巧，但我喜欢绘画。