pretension

1. N-VAR 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. 做作[表不滿]

Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world. 她的天真無(wú)邪很快就暴露出藝術(shù)界的做作。

2. N-PLURAL If someone has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing. 聲稱

The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status. 該城市不切實(shí)際地聲稱爲(wèi)世界一流城市。