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单词 purport
释义
purport
verb[T+ to infinitive]
formal
uk
/pəˈpɔːt/us
/pɝːˈpɔːrt/
topretendto be or to do something,especiallyin a way that is noteasytobelieve:
声称，标榜
They purporttorepresentthewishesof themajorityofparentsat theschool.他们声称自己代表了该校大多数学生家长的愿望。
Thestudypurportstoshow anincreasein theincidenceof thedisease.该研究据称显示出这种疾病的发病率在上升。
Thetaperecordingpurportstobe of aconversationbetween theprincessand asecretadmirer.这盒录音带据称是王妃和她的一个秘密爱慕者之间的谈话。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to act as if something is true when it is not
  • pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise.
  • make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce.
  • play at somethingUKThe children are playing at cops and robbers.
  • role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping.
  • fakeShe's only faking being ill.
  • feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Seeming and purporting to be
  • apparent
  • appear
  • as if/thoughidiom
  • by the look(s) of thingsidiom
  • come across
  • come off
  • outward
  • outwardly
  • parallax
  • pass
  • pass for sb/sth
  • persona
  • seemingly
  • semblance
  • so-called
  • sound
  • superficial
  • superficiality
  • superficially
  • surface
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Faking & pretending
purport
noun[U]
formal
uk
/ˈpɜː.pɔːt/us
/ˈpɝː.pɔːrt/
thegeneralmeaningof someone's words oractions:
大意，主旨
I didn'treadit all but Ithinkthe purport of theletterwas that he will not bereturningfor at least ayear.我没有把信读完，但我想这封信的大意是说他至少一年不回来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Meaning & significance
  • add
  • add up tosomething
  • backspin
  • be a badge ofsomethingidiom
  • connotate
  • connotation
  • i.e.
  • locution
  • locutionary
  • mean
  • meaningfully
  • meaningfulness
  • meaningless
  • sense
  • significant
  • signification
  • signify
  • speak
  • subtext
  • what's withsomething?idiom
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(Definition ofpurportfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

purport| American Dictionary

purport
verb[+ to infinitive]
fml
us
/pərˈpɔrt/
toclaimthat something istrue, but withoutproof:
Thestorypurports toexplaintheoriginof thegameofchess.
(Definition ofpurportfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpurport

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The first is how linguistic factors purported to affect structural borrowing are identified, defined, and supported.
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The sounds of muzak are purported to produce specific musical affects.
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The term 'face validity' simply means that the instrument appears to measure what it purports to.
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Violence purported to cover the loss of authority and askesis eliminated nameless but dangerous desires; sometimes the two traded places.
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The maxim is also a comprehensive representation of the world, a generalized description of the "real," purporting to swallow up all particular cases.
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In other words, art requires subjectivity and leaves purported objectivity to science.
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Even more, participants made deliberate reference to their own (purported) political loyalties to strengthen the legitimacy of their actions.
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Thus, the theory both predicts and purports to explain an association between these two variables.
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Nothing in this account of team agency purports to tell people when they ought + whether morally or rationally + to act as members of teams.
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Problems arise when more detailed contentful hypotheses are offered purporting to explain the existence and mechanisms of particular psychological phenomena in specifically evolutionary terms.
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One small exception is in a table which purports to show that antonyms occur together more often than chance would predict (165).
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What is more, neither version of the silencing argument actually rests on liberal premises, as purported.
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I argue that this opera is as much ' about' the workings of the genre as it is ' about' the story it purports to tell.
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The benefits of pooling the results of studies purporting to consider the same kind of service or intervention is questionable for this reason.
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Consider the following argument that purports to show that there is no ' evil demon ', no individual who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnimalevolent.
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