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pretension n.声称；自命；要求；自负；狂妄；炫耀 (1) 他冒充上流社会人士而出尽洋相。(2) 他并不以这方面专家自居。(3) 读者可以感觉到她文章中的狂妄自负令人反感。(4) 这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。 When you speak with pretension, you're boastful and you puff yourself up as someone very important or of great worth. If you have literary pretentions, you mostly likely think you're a great writer, but you most likely are not. As you might imagine, this word has the same Latin roots as pretend and pretense. A pretension can also be the advancing of a claim.

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英 [prɪ'tenʃn] 美 [prɪ'tenʃn] (1) His social pretensions make him appear ridiculous.(2) He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.(3) Readers may find the pretension and arrogance of her style irritating.(4) The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class. Pretension is what you're guilty of when you boorishly try to impress other people with how important or clever you are. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰 If you say that someone has pretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.   [disapproval]Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world...她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]声称；标榜；自称 If someone has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing.   [also N in pl]The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status...这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party.它仍然是一个压力集团，但不再自称是一个政党。

英语单词	pretension
英美音标	英 [prɪ'tenʃn] 美 [prɪ'tenʃn]
中文释义	n.声称；自命；要求；自负；狂妄；炫耀
英语例句	(1) His social pretensions make him appear ridiculous. (2) He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject. (3) Readers may find the pretension and arrogance of her style irritating. (4) The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.
中文例句	(1) 他冒充上流社会人士而出尽洋相。 (2) 他并不以这方面专家自居。 (3) 读者可以感觉到她文章中的狂妄自负令人反感。 (4) 这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。
vocabulary简明	Pretension is what you're guilty of when you boorishly try to impress other people with how important or clever you are.
vocabulary扩展	When you speak with pretension, you're boastful and you puff yourself up as someone very important or of great worth. If you have literary pretentions, you mostly likely think you're a great writer, but you most likely are not. As you might imagine, this word has the same Latin roots as pretend and pretense. A pretension can also be the advancing of a claim.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰 If you say that someone has pretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are. [disapproval] Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world... 她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。 We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension. 我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]声称；标榜；自称 If someone has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing. [also N in pl] The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status... 这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。 It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party. 它仍然是一个压力集团，但不再自称是一个政党。

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