Pretentious
[prɪ'tenʃəs] or [prɪ'tɛnʃəs]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(a.) Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
校對:南森
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [Recent.] Assuming, conceited, vain, pert, flippant, priggish, coxcomical, dashing.
錄入:罗兰
例句/造句/用法:
- The intricate and pretentious art of diplomacy developed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The more pretentious and better furnished home of the superintendent of the estate, together with the storehouses, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Edison's second electric railroad of 1882 was more pretentious as regards length, construction, and equipment. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- At the present time the studios in which motion pictures are taken are expensive and pretentious affairs. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
錄入:罗兰