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1·The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.

这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。《牛津词典》

2·The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.

该城市不切实际地声称为世界一流城市。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.

她的天真无邪很快就暴露出艺术界的做作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·He makes no pretensions to skill.

他并不自以为有技能。

5·Yet here pretensions meet hard reality.

然而自负遇到了残酷的事实。

6·A home is just a house with pretensions.

家，就是一个装满了虚荣的房子。

7·Pretensions that will never be realized.

而那些矫饰的理想永远不会被实现。

8·He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.

他自以为爱好文学和唯物主义。

9·He has no pretensions to being considered a scholar.

他并不要求被看作学者。

10·This kind of obscurity is not only pretensions; it is short-sighted.

这种含糊其词不仅显得自命不凡，而且缺乏远见。

自负

1·When the absurdity of this biologism and organicism became obvious, the sociologists completely abandoned the ambitious pretensions of Comte.

当这种生物学主义和有机体说的荒谬变得明显，社会学家便完全抛弃了自负的奥古斯特·孔德。