Pretension
[prɪ'tenʃ(ə)n] or [prɪ'tɛnʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a false or unsupportable quality.
(noun.) the advancing of a claim; 'his pretension to the crown'; 'the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort'.
约翰校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
(n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
奥布里校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Claim, demand.[2]. Show, assumption, profession, PRETENCE, make-believe.[3]. Conceit, pretentiousness, pertness, priggery.
校对:迈拉
例句:
- There is no pretension whatever to any critical study of Das Kapital itself. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The pretension to finality falls away. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- We may know that it's a base pretension by its having that effect. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- They held many aversions too in common, and could have the comfort of laughing together over works of false sentimentality and pompous pretension. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- No, said Darcy, I have made no such pretension. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I speak generally, and not with any pretension to exactness. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I make no pretension to be better than my fellows. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But I thought Werter himself a more divine being than I had ever beheld or imagined; his character contained no pretension, but it sunk deep. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Upon what grounds this pretension is founded must now be the subject of our enquiry. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- It very seldom happens that anybody--of any pretensions--any pretensions--comes here without being presented to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- We must not swing across from the repudiation of the extravagant pretensions of the faithful to an equally extravagant condemnation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For they certainly do believe it, and generally the more parochial their outlook, the more cosmic their pretensions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I am not a moral sort of fellow,' he said, 'and I never make any pretensions to the character of a moral sort of fellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Everybody went away having any pretensions to politeness, and of course, with them, Doctor von Glauber, the Court Doctor, and his Baroness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He never dreamed of disputing their pretensions, but did homage to the miserable Mumbo jumbo they paraded. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- What a launch in life I think it now, on looking back, to be so mean and servile to a man of such parts and pretensions! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- In the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for _use_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Should he oppose any of their pretensions or usurpations, the danger is equally great. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Nobody believed in his pretensions any more. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- What Nietzsche has done here is, in his swashbuckling fashion, to cut under the abstract and final pretensions of creeds. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- She is such a very nice girl--no airs, no pretensions, though on a level with the firSt. I don't mean with the titled aristocracy. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
校对:贾斯廷