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pretensions prɪˈtenʃənz COCA²⁸⁶²¹BNC¹⁶⁹⁵⁶Economist³⁴³¹⁸⁺³
基本例句
n.自称pretension的名词复数；自命不凡；要求；权力原型pretension的复数 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。 yeeyan
The Muslim Brotherhood, milder than the Salafists but with pretensions to represent orthodoxy, has itself spun off new political trends.
穆斯林兄弟会较原教旨主义者温和，但自居正统，自己从新的政治潮流剥离出来。 ecocn
A home is just a house with pretensions.
家，就是一个装满了虚荣的房子。 cri
After that, perhaps, the pretensions of corporate America could never have had much hold on him.
也许，自那以后，美国企业团体就再也找不到针对麦克尔斯的把柄了。 ecocn
Besides, despite academia's pretensions to objectivity, it is as subject to political considerations as any area of human endeavour.
此外，尽管学术界的自命不凡客观存在着，在人类努力的任何领域中它仍然是政治考量的对象。 ecocn
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。 yeeyan
For all China’s exalted pretensions those centuries ago, its amour propre was comprehensively assaulted during more than a hundred years of humiliation at outside hands.
但对中国来说，所有那些荣耀都已是无数个世纪之前的往事，一百多年间，对外的屈辱完全击垮了它的自尊。 yeeyan
For18 years it has been locked in conflict with Greece over its name, which the Greeks say implies territorial pretensions to Greek Macedonia.
在过去的18年间，马其顿始终因其国名问题与希腊缠斗不休；希腊人认为“马其顿”这个名字暗藏对于希腊马其顿省的领土要求。 ecocn
He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
他自以为爱好文学和唯物主义。 ebigear
In a country with massive energy needs, and pretensions to global- power status, that would be momentous.
在这样一个能源需求巨大，自命为世界大国的国家中，这份协议的意义极其重大。 ecocn
It should not be enforced in any country with democratic pretensions.
在任何一个民主国家，它不应是强制性的。 yeeyan
Its actions have called into question its maturity as a responsible international actor and undermined its pretensions to a “ peaceful rise”.
它的行为让其作为一个负责任的国际角色应具备的成熟以及其“和平崛起”潜台词受到质疑。 ecocn
Mr bin Laden matters because he swept up a ragbag of local grievances into a brand of intoxicating and violent jihad with worldwide pretensions.
本拉登是重要的。他把人们的不满都打包成袋，贴着令人兴奋的圣战的标签，曾获得人们的广泛支持。 ecocn
Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.
他们在正义上的专业训练，只是他们的专业,或说自命表达其自负与野心。163
They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions.
他们害怕暴露自己的弱点，因此将自己隐藏在层层骄傲和矫饰之下。 ebigear
Trade up the Hudson river was controlled by an aristocratic elite with pretensions to secure a steamboat monopoly.
哈迪孙河上的贸易被贵族精英阶层以保护蒸汽机船独占权为名所控制。 ecocn
Until India shows more charm— or strength— to those nearby, distant powers are unlikely to take its global pretensions very seriously.
只有印度向这些领国展示出更多的魅力或实力，远隔一方的强国才有可能认真对待其炫耀的全球实力。 ecocn
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。 ecocn |