| 单词 | pretension |
| 释义 | pretension (prɪtenʃən ) Word forms: pretensions 1. variable noun 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. [+ of] We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension. Synonyms: affectation, hypocrisy, conceit, show 2. uncountable noun [NOUN to-infinitive] If someone has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing. The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status. [+ to] It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party. Collocations: artistic pretension Who knew that the big twist in his own career would be a hilariously self-defeating attack of childish egomania and artistic pretension? Times, Sunday Times Rulers with artistic pretensions are not to be scorned. The Times Literary Supplement By the time he entered politics in the 1920s, he had dropped his artistic pretensions and found himself a more congenial role model. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 做作 Japanese: 気取り |
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