- the act of trying to appear more important, intelligent, etc. than you are in order to impress other people虚饰；虚夸
- intellectual pretensions装作有知识
- 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。
- He spoke without pretension.他有话直说，不装相。
- She was a bored housewife with social pretensions.她是一个无聊的家庭主妇，自命不凡。
- She was charmed by his lack of pretension.他不虚夸，不做作，这让她为之倾倒。
- a claim to be or to do something自命；声称；标榜
- pretension to (doing) something a building with no pretensions to architectural merit没有刻意表现建筑特色的楼房
- pretension (to do something) The movie makes no pretension to reproduce life.这部电影并未标榜重现了真实生活。
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin praetensio(n-), from praetens- ‘alleged’, from the verb praetendere ‘stretch forth, claim’, from prae ‘before’ + tendere ‘stretch’.