pretensions 中文意思是什麼

pretensions 解釋
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  1. We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.

    我們把自己恣肆狂妄的心胸稍稍加以收斂。
  2. The latter, for reasons that need not be belabored, may come to resent the experts ' grandiose pretensions and the concrete social privileges that accompany them

    由於在這里不需要反覆研究的理由,後者就會怨恨專家誇張的藉口以及它們的具體社會特權。
  3. 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。
  4. Quite early in its career buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the brahmins.

    佛教創立之初,很快就同婆羅門日益增長的矯飾自負發生了沖突。
  5. It throws shit on all pretensions and fictions.

    它輕視一切偽裝和虛構。
  6. 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,而且缺乏遠見。
  7. 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。
  8. On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions.

    對街有一家不怎麼堂煌的飯館。
  9. Three of eurytuss sons supported their father in his dishonest pretensions.

    歐律托斯的三個兒子都支持父親的不誠實的借口。
  10. A year had now elapsed since her sad marriage, but she had preserved sufficient draperies from the wreck of her then full wardrobe to clothe her very charmingly as a simple country girl with no pretensions to recent fashion ; a soft gray woollen gown, with white crape quilling against the pink skin of her face and neck, and a black velvet jacket and hat

    自從她不幸的婚姻開始以來,已經過去一年了,但是在當時滿滿一櫃新嫁娘衣服里,現在她保存下來的衣服,還是足夠她把自己打扮成一個美麗動人而又不追求時尚的樸素的鄉下姑娘。她穿的是一件淺灰色毛料長袍,在長袍的白色鑲邊的映襯下,她的臉和脖子的粉紅色皮膚更加艷麗了。
  11. He never aimed at mere effect, and had none of the little tricks and pretensions of second-rate reputations.

    他從不追求單純的成功,毫無享有第二流聲望的那種人的花俏與做作。
  12. His social pretensions make him appear ridiculous

    他冒充上流社會人士而出盡洋相。
  13. He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject

    他並不以這方面專家自居。
  14. I make no pretensions to expert knowledge of financial matters

    我不自詡有金融方面的專門知識。
  15. You will not, i hope, consider me as shewing any disrespect to your family, my dear madam, by thus withdrawing my pretensions to your daughter s favour, without having paid yourself and mr. bennet the compliment of requesting you to interpose your authority in my behalf

    遇到這種場合,聽天由命是再好不過的辦法。親愛的太太,我這樣收回了對令嬡的求婚,希望你別以為這是對您老人家和班納特先生不恭敬的表示,別怪我沒要求你們出面代我調停一下。
  16. The sea throws off all pretensions now and sends wave after cruel wave thundering at you, grinning evilly

    現在大海褪去了一切偽裝,驅譴著滾滾惡浪,沖著你雷霆般地咆哮;在惡浪的銀灰色的寒光里,大海在奸笑。
  17. Mr. elton returned to the village with a hastily wooed and wedded bride, a lady of small fortune, extremely bad manners, and great pretensions to elegance

    埃爾頓先生重返海伯利村,帶回一個倉促求愛成婚的新娘。這位婦人小有資產,極其粗俗,卻偏偏矯揉造作,自命高雅。
  18. By one of history's little ironies, those struggling of independence sometimes inherit the imperial pretensions of their former colonial rulers.

    作為歷史的一個小小諷刺,為獨立而斗爭的人有時也會繼承前殖民統治者的帝國抱負。
  19. Several pretensions on quick advancement at hard heading with big fault

    大斷面巖巷快速掘進的幾點體會
  20. He finally deserts the barrister ' s wife, with all her tiresome intellectual pretensions, and flies off with his angiolina to lead the simple life in the countryside

    他終于拋棄了高級律師的妻子,以及他那令人討厭的理性的矯飾,帶著他的安吉利娜飛走了,在鄉下過著簡樸的生活。
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