| 词汇 | pretension |
| 释义 | pretension noun uk /prɪˈten.ʃən/ us /prɪˈten.ʃən/ [ Cusually plural ] a claim or belief that you can succeed or that you are important or have serious value: 自命，标榜;意图;抱负 The Chronicle has pretensions to being a serious newspaper.《记事报》想办成一份严肃的报纸。 The NY Giants' Super Bowl pretensions were dashed when they were beaten last week.纽约巨人队上周的失利使其超级碗夺冠意图受挫。 [ U ](alsopretentiousness) the act of trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are做作，夸耀 Opinions, beliefs and points of view accepted wisdom Afrocentric agnosticism anti-drug anti-ideological bubble creed have/take a notion to do somethingidiom helicopter view heretical heretically hot take point of view pole politics posture prism proposition recency bias tick You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Affected & insincere pretension | American Dictionarypretension noun[ C/U ] us/prɪˈten·ʃən/ the appearance of being more important or more serious than there is reason for: [ U ]Leonard’s paintings have a real freedom from pretension. A pretension is also a claim or belief that you can succeed or that you are important or have serious value: [ Cusually pl ]He has no pretensions for higher office. Examples of pretensionpretension Are their artistic pretensions a reflection of their gentle connections, or are there other significant differentials at work? Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions. Lacking in theoretical pretensions, it offers an arsenal of information permitting students to enrich paradigms and other abstractions with real-life events. Not only that, but inescapeable processes of globalization, a nice buzz word now in academe, make such objective pretensions increasingly anachronistic. Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing. Obviously, parliaments were ripe occasions for viceroys with monarchical pretensions to play out their fantasies. No pretensions, though his scholarship was seemingly unlimited. This characteristic is very interesting in our case, because the used wires will not need pretension to be actuated. To sophisticated sojourners its pretensions could seem absurd. But her pretensions to empire were out of proportion to her means. Today's modernism is ironically a disavowal of modernity, and all its pretensions to provide a comprehensive and unitary ideal of human reasoning. A serious flaw of the present approach is that most new guidelines are produced with the pretension that there are no other guidelines around. There are enough yawning gaps between our pretensions to social equality, equality before the law, freedom of all kinds, to motivate a million comedies. In this sense, the pretension of ostentation and visual impact produced a voluntary alteration of reality. Her unnatural pretension was one of many traits held up by him as signs of disobedience in commonwealth and disorder in cosmos. See all examples of pretension These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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