pretensions信息详情
n.借口；自负；虚荣做作（pretension的复数形式）
presensions───演示文稿
pretension───n.自负；要求；主张；借口；骄傲
protensions───n.伸展；延伸
precessions───n.先行，优先；进动，旋进；岁差
prehension───n.理解；抓住
presension───暂停
pretentious───adj.自命不凡的；炫耀的；做作的
preventions───n.预防；阻止；妨碍
propensions───物业
The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.───该城市不切实际地声称为世界一流城市。
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.───她的天真无邪很快就暴露出艺术界的做作。
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。
Except his mild little wife there was not a thing with any pretensions to attractiveness about this household.───除了他那温柔娇小的太太之外，这个家庭没有一件东西配得上吸引人。
Edith Wilson was by no means the benign figure of her pretensions; the president far less than the hero of his aspirations.───伊迪丝·威尔逊决不是她自称的善良角色；总统也远非他所期望的英雄。
Leaving aside deliberate pretensions, a person tends to project the same personality through all means of communication.───除故意之外，一个人一般在所有交流方式中都展示了同样的个性。
Instead, the government looks unlikely either to surrender any of Britain's global pretensions or to be willing to pay for them.───但正相反，政府似乎既不愿意放弃英国的任何全球抱负，也不愿意为这些抱负埋单。
A series of rotating coalitions, however, would not measure up to European pretensions to being taken seriously in near abroad.───不过，一系列成员不断变换的联盟，不会让欧洲在周边地区得到重视的愿望成真。
Whatever his pretensions, Mr Lieberman is not ready to spearhead a revolt.───无论他用什么借口，利伯曼先生都不会带头反抗。
The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.
I make no pretensions to skill as an artist.
The Chronicle has pretensions to being a serious newspaper.
His intellectual pretensions are all sham.
She is endearingly free of pretensions.
The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.
Lilith resented Adam's pretensions to superiority.
He has/makes no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.