pretension

英 [prɪˈtenʃn]

美 [prɪˈtenʃn]

n.  虚饰; 虚夸; 自命; 声称; 标榜

复数：pretensions　

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Collins.1 / BNC.11562 / COCA.14551

牛津词典

noun

• 虚饰；虚夸
  the act of trying to appear more important, intelligent, etc. than you are in order to impress other people
  1. intellectual pretensions
     装作有知识
  2. 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。
  3. He spoke without pretension.
     他有话直说，不装相。
• 自命；声称；标榜
  a claim to be or to do sth
  1. a building with no pretensions to architectural merit
     没有刻意表现建筑特色的楼房
  2. The movie makes no pretension to reproduce life.
     这部电影并未标榜重现了真实生活。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰
  If you say that someone haspretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.
  1. 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。
  2. We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.
     我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。
• N-UNCOUNT 声称；标榜；自称
  If someone haspretensions tosomething, they claim to be or do that thing.
  1. 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。
  2. It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party.
     它仍然是一个压力集团，但不再自称是一个政党。

英英释义

noun

• a false or unsupportable quality
  Synonym:pretensepretence
• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
  Synonym:pretentiousnesslargeness
• the advancing of a claim
  1. his pretension to the crown
  2. the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort

双语例句

• Friction increases with increasing pretension.
  摩擦力随预加张力的增加而增加。
• The world is his, who can see through its pretension.
  这世界是他的，他看穿了它的假面。
• Study on the Theories and Applications of the "Ejection Method" Measuring the Membrane Structure's Pretension
  弹射法测量膜结构预张力的理论及应用研究
• Be humble, be harmless, gave no pretension, be upright, forbearing, serve you teacher in true obedience.
  要谦虚，无恶意，不虚伪，要正直，宽容，对你的老师要真正的服从。
• Based on the basic concept of the un-deformed pretension of cable, the optimization model of finished state with multi-objective and multi-constraint is used.
  基于不变形预张力的基本概念，建立了斜拉桥成桥状态的多目标、多约束的优化模型，并通过有限元程序求解成桥索力。
• Implicit analysis has been conducted in ANSYS for application of pretension loading, and explicit dynamic analysis of the pre-tighten status has been achieved in LS-DYNA.
  在ANSYS中进行隐式分析，利用拉杆预压缩方法施加机身预紧载荷；在LS-DYNA中进行预紧状态下显式动力学分析。
• 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。
• 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。
• The precision straight guide rail has pretension, good rigidity and high accuracy.
  日本进口精密直线矩形导轨，有预紧，钢性好，精度高；
• The pretension of bolts directly affects the deformation form of the deformation of bulging, and the sealing condition between the exchanger thermal sheet spaces.
  而螺栓的预紧力直接影响这种鼓胀变形的形式和板片间的密封状态。