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单词 pretension
释义
pretension
noun
uk
/prɪˈten.ʃən/us
/prɪˈten.ʃən/
[Cusually plural]
aclaimorbeliefthat you cansucceedor that you areimportantor haveseriousvalue:
自命，标榜；意图；抱负
The Chronicle has pretensionstobeing aseriousnewspaper.《记事报》想办成一份严肃的报纸。
The NY Giants'SuperBowlpretensions weredashedwhen they werebeatenlastweek.纽约巨人队上周的失利使其超级碗夺冠意图受挫。
[U]
(alsopretentiousness)
theactoftryingtoappearorsoundmoreimportantorcleverthan you are
做作，夸耀
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Affected & insincere
(Definition ofpretensionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

pretension| American Dictionary

pretension
noun[C/U]
us
/prɪˈten·ʃən/
theappearanceof being moreimportantor moreseriousthan there isreasonfor:
[U]Leonard’spaintingshave arealfreedomfrom pretension.
A pretension is also aclaimorbeliefthat you cansucceedor that you areimportantor haveseriousvalue:
[Cusually pl]He has no pretensions forhigheroffice.
(Definition ofpretensionfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpretension

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Are their artistic pretensions a reflection of their gentle connections, or are there other significant differentials at work?
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Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions.
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Lacking in theoretical pretensions, it offers an arsenal of information permitting students to enrich paradigms and other abstractions with real-life events.
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Not only that, but inescapeable processes of globalization, a nice buzz word now in academe, make such objective pretensions increasingly anachronistic.
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Feminist readers attacked itspretensionand conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing.
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Obviously, parliaments were ripe occasions for viceroys with monarchical pretensions to play out their fantasies.
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No pretensions, though his scholarship was seemingly unlimited.
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This characteristic is very interesting in our case, because the used wires will not needpretensionto be actuated.
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To sophisticated sojourners its pretensions could seem absurd.
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But her pretensions to empire were out of proportion to her means.
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Today's modernism is ironically a disavowal of modernity, and all its pretensions to provide a comprehensive and unitary ideal of human reasoning.
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A serious flaw of the present approach is that most new guidelines are produced with thepretensionthat there are no other guidelines around.
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There are enough yawning gaps between our pretensions to social equality, equality before the law, freedom of all kinds, to motivate a million comedies.
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In this sense, thepretensionof ostentation and visual impact produced a voluntary alteration of reality.
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Her unnaturalpretensionwas one of many traits held up by him as signs of disobedience in commonwealth and disorder in cosmos.
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