| 词汇 | purport |
| 释义 | purport verb[ T+ to infinitive ] formaluk /pəˈpɔːt/ us /pɝːˈpɔːrt/ to pretend to be or to do something, especially in a way that is not easy to believe: 声称，标榜 They purport to represent the wishes of the majority of parents at the school.他们声称自己代表了该校大多数学生家长的愿望。 The study purports to show an increase in the incidence of the disease.该研究据称显示出这种疾病的发病率在上升。 The tape recording purports to be of a conversation between the princess and a secret admirer.这盒录音带据称是王妃和她的一个秘密爱慕者之间的谈话。 to act as if something is true when it is not pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise. make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce. play at somethingUK The children are playing at cops and robbers. role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping. fakeShe's only faking being ill. feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance. Seeming and purporting to be apparent appear appearance as if/thoughidiom by the look(s) of thingsidiom come across come off formal outward outwardly outwardness parallax pass pass for sb/sth seemingly semblance superficial superficiality superficially surface You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Faking & pretending purport noun[ U ] formaluk /ˈpɜː.pɔːt/ us /ˈpɝː.pɔːrt/ the general meaning of someone's words or actions: 大意，主旨 I didn't read it all but I think the purport of the letter was that he will not be returning for at least a year.我没有把信读完，但我想这封信的大意是说他至少一年不回来。 Meaning & significance acceptation add add up to something backspin be a badge of somethingidiom connotation drive i.e. interpretable locution locutionary mean meaningfully meaningfulness sense significant signify subtext use what's with something?idiom purport | American Dictionarypurport verb[ + to infinitive ] fmlus/pərˈpɔrt/ to claim that something is true, but without proof: The story purports to explain the origin of the game of chess. Examples of purportpurport The first is how linguistic factors purported to affect structural borrowing are identified, defined, and supported. The sounds of muzak are purported to produce specific musical affects. The term 'face validity' simply means that the instrument appears to measure what it purports to. Violence purported to cover the loss of authority and askesis eliminated nameless but dangerous desires; sometimes the two traded places. The maxim is also a comprehensive representation of the world, a generalized description of the "real," purporting to swallow up all particular cases. In other words, art requires subjectivity and leaves purported objectivity to science. Even more, participants made deliberate reference to their own (purported) political loyalties to strengthen the legitimacy of their actions. Thus, the theory both predicts and purports to explain an association between these two variables. Nothing in this account of team agency purports to tell people when they ought + whether morally or rationally + to act as members of teams. Problems arise when more detailed contentful hypotheses are offered purporting to explain the existence and mechanisms of particular psychological phenomena in specifically evolutionary terms. One small exception is in a table which purports to show that antonyms occur together more often than chance would predict (165). What is more, neither version of the silencing argument actually rests on liberal premises, as purported. I argue that this opera is as much ' about' the workings of the genre as it is ' about' the story it purports to tell. The benefits of pooling the results of studies purporting to consider the same kind of service or intervention is questionable for this reason. Consider the following argument that purports to show that there is no ' evil demon ', no individual who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnimalevolent. See all examples of purport 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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