Pretentious
[prɪ'tenʃəs] or [prɪ'tɛnʃəs]
解释:
(adj.) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; 'a pretentious country house'; 'a pretentious fraud'; 'a pretentious scholarly edition' .
手打:托德--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
校对:南森
同义词及近义词:
a. [Recent.] Assuming, conceited, vain, pert, flippant, priggish, coxcomical, dashing.
录入:罗兰
例句:
- The intricate and pretentious art of diplomacy developed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The more pretentious and better furnished home of the superintendent of the estate, together with the storehouses, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Edison's second electric railroad of 1882 was more pretentious as regards length, construction, and equipment. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- At the present time the studios in which motion pictures are taken are expensive and pretentious affairs. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
录入:罗兰