Pretensions

例句/造句/用法:

• You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• It very seldom happens that anybody--of any pretensions--any pretensions--comes here without being presented to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• We must not swing across from the repudiation of the extravagant pretensions of the faithful to an equally extravagant condemnation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• For they certainly do believe it, and generally the more parochial their outlook, the more cosmic their pretensions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
• He never dreamed of disputing their pretensions, but did homage to the miserable Mumbo jumbo they paraded. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• 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! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• In the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for _use_. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• Should he oppose any of their pretensions or usurpations, the danger is equally great. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Nobody believed in his pretensions any more. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• What Nietzsche has done here is, in his swashbuckling fashion, to cut under the abstract and final pretensions of creeds. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• 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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Know then, that I have supported my pretensions to your hand in the way that best suited thy character. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Celia, whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions much more readily. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• How can people be blamed for laughing at such pretensions, and believing that even if such a thing were true it was more fit for an exposition than for public use? 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Quite early in its career Buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the Brahmins. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• I took personal charge of running down this man and his pretensions in the section of the city where he lived and among his old neighbors. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Though the older courses resisted, they have had at least in this country to retire their pretensions to a monopoly. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• A prejudice against some mannerism or a dislike of pretensions may merely cloak some other kind of routine. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Taken literally, they are absurd pretensions; they indicate insanity. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• I knew that Floyd was in command, but he was no soldier, and I judged that he would yield to Pillow's pretensions. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I do not care to dilate upon the exploded pretensions of Mr. and Mrs. Grundy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• It makes no pretensions, but it is a comfortable little place, I hope, and will be more so with such bright young looks in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Scarce can we believe the first citizens of the ancient republics had such pretensions to consideration, though so highly celebrated in ancient story. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• The man of real high rank and breeding might here have been easily distinguished from the mere man of impudent pretensions. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.

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