pretensions

美 [pr??ten??n] 　英 [pr??ten?(?)n]

• n.抱負(fù)；自負(fù)；虛飾；虛榮
• v.【建】預(yù)張
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)虛榮做作；偽裝；狂妄

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Except his mild little wife there was not a thing with any pretensions to attractiveness about this household.

除了他那溫柔嬌小的太太之外，這個家庭沒有一件東西配得上吸引人。

Edith Wilson was by no means the benign figure of her pretensions; the president far less than the hero of his aspirations.

伊迪絲·威爾遜決不是她自稱的善良角色；總統(tǒng)也遠(yuǎn)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，一個人一般在所有交流方式中都展示了同樣的個性。

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棄英國的任何全球抱負(fù)，也不愿意為這些抱負(fù)埋單。

A series of rotating coalitions, however, would not measure up to European pretensions to being taken seriously in near abroad.

不過，一系列成員不斷變換的聯(lián)盟，不會讓歐洲在周邊地區(qū)得到重視的愿望成真。

Whatever his pretensions, Mr Lieberman is not ready to spearhead a revolt.

無論他用什么借口，利伯曼先生都不會帶頭反抗。

Trade up the Hudson river was controlled by an aristocratic elite with pretensions to secure a steamboat monopoly.

哈迪孫河上的貿(mào)易被貴族精英階層以保護(hù)蒸汽機船獨占權(quán)為名所控制。

You know its pretensions. They give themselves the air of demigods .

你們也知道他們如何盛氣凌人，自比神明。

Quite early in its career Buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the Brahmins.

佛教創(chuàng)立之初，很快就同婆羅門日益增長的矯飾自負(fù)發(fā)生了沖突。

During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.

在她訂婚的日子里一個哪怕是最不善做作的姑娘也比在其他日子里期望更多的鮮花。

After that, perhaps, the pretensions of corporate America could never have had much hold on him.

也許，自那以后，美國企業(yè)團體就再也找不到針對麥克爾斯的把柄了。

It has no cut scenes, no back story, no pretensions.

該游戲沒有場景切換，沒有背景故事，沒有主張。

In a country with massive energy needs, and pretensions to global-power status, that would be momentous.

在這樣一個能源需求巨大，自命為世界大國的國家中，這份協(xié)議的意義極其重大。

To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.

感謝讀者，用寬容的耳朵傾聽了一個樸實平凡的故事。

He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.

他并不以這方面專家自居。

Most European nations are now embarking on budget cuts, further undermining pretensions to a separate European policy.

大部分歐洲國家如今著手削減預(yù)算，進(jìn)一步損害了建立獨立歐洲政策的主張。

On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses.

街對面有家不怎么豪華的飯店，是個胃口大但囊中羞澀的食客的好去處。

Without it there would be nothing left of its global pretensions.

沒有歐洲，法國在全球就不會剩下多少話語權(quán)。

The internationalist pretensions of Hagi's most famous son notwithstanding, the foreigners living there these days are few and far between.

盡管這位萩城這位最著名的兒子享有著國際主義者的稱號，目前居住在此的外國人卻很稀少。

Besides, despite academia's pretensions to objectivity, it is as subject to political considerations as any area of human endeavour.

此外，盡管學(xué)術(shù)界的自命不凡客觀存在著【客觀】，但是，就像在人類努力的任何領(lǐng)域中它仍然是政治考量的對象。

During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.

在她訂婚的日子里一個哪怕是最不善做作的姑娘也比在其他日子里期望更多的鮮花。

This kind of obscurity is not only pretensions; it is short-sighted.

這種含糊其詞不僅顯得自命不凡，而且缺乏遠(yuǎn)見。

Japan was a commercial power without imperial pretensions; China is both.

日本只有經(jīng)濟實力，沒有發(fā)展帝國實力的權(quán)力；中國兩者皆有。

He let slip that he wanted to be the "vicar" of foreign policy, a word with pope-size pretensions.

他無意中說想當(dāng)外交政策的“主教”，這個稱號真是自命不凡。

But they are increasingly open in challenging the G20's pretensions to be a "steering committee for the world" .

但這些國家正越來越公開地挑戰(zhàn)G20要成為“世界籌劃指導(dǎo)委員會”的主張。

The Muslim Brotherhood, milder than the Salafists but with pretensions to represent orthodoxy, has itself spun off new political trends.

穆斯林兄弟會較原教旨主義者溫和，但自居正統(tǒng)，自己從新的政治潮流剝離出來。

Hitherto, the rulers of emerging countries disliked the west's pretensions, but respected its competence.

迄今為止，新興市場國家的統(tǒng)治者雖然不喜歡西方世界的裝腔作勢，卻尊重其能力。

But despite pretensions to latter-day phrenology, they remain an abstraction, an imperfect bridge from brain to mind.

盡管它們自命為當(dāng)代顱相學(xué)，但仍留下抽象過程未解，從腦到心的橋梁還不完整。

They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions.

他們害怕暴露自己的弱點，因此將自己隱藏在層層驕傲和矯飾之下。

it was a gratuitous, that is, an artistic activity, though with few pretensions to being an art.

那是一種無報酬的，也即藝術(shù)的活動，盡管并沒有多少要自命為藝術(shù)的意思。

His pretensions to judge upon such matters filled her with scorn.

他對這類事物裝模作樣的評判使她反感。

It should not be enforced in any country with democratic pretensions.

在任何一個民主國家，它不應(yīng)是強制性的。

what pretensions have we, upon your suppositions, to ascribe that attribute to the divine Being?

那么，根據(jù)你的假設(shè)，我們有什么理由將那一屬性歸因于神靈呢？。

China's experience with Japan, another neighbour with global pretensions, showed that all too clearly.

中國與日本這個有著全球抱負(fù)的鄰國打交道的經(jīng)歷，早已讓這一切表露無遺。

The cats must unsheath their claws and lacerate the kings, ripping away their regal pretensions.

貓必須伸出爪子去抓撓國王，撕破他們帝王式的自命不凡。

For the Chinese, eating goes beyond the pure necessity of nourishment, and has little in common with our gourmet pretensions.

對中國人來說，就餐不僅僅是單純的為了營養(yǎng)，和我們為了追求美食家的稱號也不近相同。

My literary pretensions made C splutter with laughter, but poetry weaves a potent spell.

我木訥的搞怪做作讓C捧腹大笑。但是詩歌卻編織了一個強有力的詛咒。

France, of course, will never surrender its global pretensions.

當(dāng)然，法國永遠(yuǎn)不會放棄自己的國際權(quán)力。

This is no longer a world. It is simply a battlefield with pretensions of something more.

這已經(jīng)不再是一個世界，它已經(jīng)成了某種矯飾的理想的戰(zhàn)場。

Despite its green pretensions, Stuttgart 21 will not move traffic from road to rail, says Gerhard Pfeifer of BUND, a pressure group.

“盡管它具有環(huán)保主張的意義，但斯圖加特21項目不會使公路運輸轉(zhuǎn)到鐵路上來。”來自壓力集團BUND的GerhardPfeifer說。

It's word play and image play, wakeful dreams--made the same way as sleep dreams. It's lies and pretensions.

它是文字游戲和圖象戲劇，警著的夢—與睡眠夢想一樣。它是謊言和假想。它是銷售。

Such events have fed the view that the government's ethical pretensions have never amounted to much and were naive to begin with.

這些事件催生了這樣的觀點：英國政府對道德的主張從來都是不重要的，而且從一開始那就是一個幼稚的主張。