pretensions

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

这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。

The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.

这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。

It throws shit on all pretensions and fictions.

它轻视一切伪装和虚构.

You know its pretensions . They give themselves the air of demigods.

你们也知道他们如何盛气凌人,自比神明.

The feud was excited by his sudden elevation , and the arrogance of his pretensions.

这种仇恨是由于他平步青云以及骄傲狂妄而引起的.

France, of course, will never surrender its global pretensions.

当然，法国永远不会放弃自己的国际权力。

a building with no pretensions to architectural merit

没有刻意表现建筑特色的楼房

The internationalist pretensions of Hagi's most famous son notwithstanding, the foreigners living there these days are few and far between.

尽管这位萩城这位最著名的儿子享有着国际主义者的称号，目前居住在此的外国人却很稀少。

We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.

我们把自己恣肆狂妄的心胸稍稍加以收敛.

His pretensions to judge upon such matters filled her with scorn.

他对这类事物装模作样的评判使她反感.

He has / makes no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.

他并不以这方面的专家自居.

She makes no pretensions to expert knowledge of the subject.

她未自诩在这个题目上是专家.

And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.

自命有统治能力的统治阶级, 也可笑.

She makes no pretensions to beauty.

她不自诩为美人.

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

她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。

He entertained his readers by lampooning the pretensions of the rich

他以冷嘲热讽自以为是的有钱人来愉悦读者。

They also set shoring up their legal claim against Portugal's pretensions to the newly discovered lands.

他们开始指控葡萄牙觊觎西班牙发现的新大陆.

I make no pretensions to expert Knowledge of financial matters.

我不自诩有金融方面的专门知识.

Quite early in its career Buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the Brahmins.

佛教创立之初,很快就同婆罗门日益增长的矫饰自负发生了冲突.

Its intellectual pretensions are based more on artistic manipulation than vision.

现代主义智力上的自负更多的是操纵艺术而不是以艺术的洞察力为基础.

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

她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。

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 makes no pretensions to skill.

他并不自以为有技能。

On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions.

对街有一家不怎么堂煌的饭馆.

She is endearingly free of pretensions.

她丝毫不做作，很讨人喜爱。

The failure of the western banking system and the sovereign debt crises that stripped Europe of its remaining pretensions and the US of its triple A rating have shown us a world in which the west is no longer the master of globalisation.

西方银行体系的失败，以及让欧洲仅存的自命不凡感荡然无存、让美国失去AAA主权信用评级的主权债务危机告诉了我们，在现今这个世界，西方已不再是全球化的主宰者。

iii. The Philippines also has territorial pretensions on China's Huangyan Dao

（三）菲律宾企图染指中国黄岩岛

The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status

这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。

She's a down-to-earth sort of woman with no pretensions.

她是那种毫不做作的、朴实的女人。