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词汇 purporting
释义 purporting
present participle ofpurport
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。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Seeming and purporting to be
apparent
appear
appearance
as if/thoughidiom
by the look(s) of thingsidiom
come across
come off
formal
judge
outward
outwardly
outwardness
parallax
pass for sb/sth
seemingly
semblance
superficial
superficiality
superficially
surface

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Faking & pretending

Examples of purporting


purporting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The maxim is also a comprehensive representation of the world, a generalized description of the "real," purporting to swallow up all particular cases.
It begins by purporting to find analytical errors of the economist.
This assembly, purporting to be the collective focus of new inventions, must wield an unprecedented power of legitimation of scientific facts.
Problems arise when more detailed contentful hypotheses are offered purporting to explain the existence and mechanisms of particular psychological phenomena in specifically evolutionary terms.
The benefits of pooling the results of studies purporting to consider the same kind of service or intervention is questionable for this reason.
Therefore, all institutionalists should be interested in methodological arguments purporting to discredit the use of formal modeling in economics.
In purporting to underpin authority by a coherent intellectual and practical regime, psychology offers others both a grounding in truth and some formulae for efficacy.
My present objective is not to pass any judgement on the adequacy of this framework as a model purporting to represent reality.
The literature purporting to address historical issues of discovery, settlement and conquest is mountainous, and generally polemical.
In other words, any text purporting to express the truth must be regarded as challengeable.
However, despite the studies purporting to include all patients with suspected appendicitis after initial clinical examinations, a broad range of prevalences was apparent (23-78 percent).
For anyone who has been involved in programmes purporting to 'assist' transition, the book contains many entertaining stories, but no surprises and no shafts of light.
There has been a blurring of the distinction between fecundity and fertility in studies purporting to demonstrate that lactation is an effective means of birth control.
But it seems preferable to practices that obscure the full consequences of judicial review by purporting to be modest when, in fact, they result in new, judicially created rules.
Considerable difficulties were encountered when undertaking this study, highlighting, above all else, the complexity of explaining why results from economic evaluations purporting to answer the same question diverge.
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