查询词典 pretensions

Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.

讽刺类作品极少提出独创的观点，而是以一种新的形式展示人们所熟悉的观点。

Don Quixote derides the stupidity of knights Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.

他们所做的就是采取这样一种立场来看待熟悉的环境，讽刺作家没有为世界贡献新的哲学。

The hypochondriac afflatus is subsiding; the acres, which in imagination I had spread over -- for the sick man swells in the sole contemplation of his single sufferings, till he becomes a Tityus to himself -- are wasting to a span; and for the giant of self-importance, which I was so lately, you have me once again in my natural pretensions -- the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist.

该hypochondriac afflatus是下沉；英亩，这在我的想象摊-为病夫膨胀，在唯一的沉思，他单身的痛苦，直到他成为一个提提俄斯自己-是在浪费一个跨度；为巨人自我的重要性，这点我是如此，最近，你有我再次在我的自然伪装-精益和微薄的数字，您的微不足道的散文家。

It suggests that Cartier-Bresson's project is an altruistic one, but without pretensions of having transformative potential.

这也体现了Cartier-Bresson的所从事的事业是无私的，并且没有改变的可能。

Of,having,or exhibiting prepotency.exhibiting no pretensions,boastfulness,or ostentation;modest.

不装腔作势的不装腔作势的，不夸耀的；不铺张招摇的；谦逊

Exhibiting no pretensions ,boastfulness,or ostentation;modest.

不装腔作势的不装腔作势的，不夸耀的；不铺张招摇的；谦逊

There's a playfulness to these tunes, like the puckish electronic drums on the flamenco-tinged and downright catchy "Notting Hill Two-Step" and the tongue-in-cheek boulevardier pretensions of the closing "Rive Gauche," that suggests a pair of sharp wits behind the well-packaged sheen of this music.

专集曲调充满趣味性，就像是以朋客节奏的电子鼓演奏出弗拉门科式的音调，而就乐曲"Notting Hill Two-Step"和易于随口哼唱乐曲"Rive Gauche"而言，确实体现出这张包装精美的专集的独特之处。

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

佐佛来男爵，克利福的父亲，尤其可笑。

So you're going to find fewer books presenting themselves as 11 no-nonsense, mass market narrative 12 and more assuming literary pretensions 13 and being packaged, however incongruously 14, as works of art.

所以你将发现，以实实在在、针对大众市场的叙事读物呈现在读者面前的书会越来越少，而自我标榜有文学价值，哪怕再不协调也要把自己包装成艺术作品的书会越来越多。

But relations with America will be pricklier than expected, partly because his pretensions to big-power status irk Washington.

但与美国的关系将会比预期的有更多磕绊，部分归因于他自命不凡的大国姿态让华盛顿很不爽。

Although translator has turned from being a crystal ball by which the original culture can unrestrainedly penetrate to another crystal ball by which the target culture can freely traverse, the translator's personal embodiment, in the process of cognitive act, are still absent in translation studies. Translators are still subjects without body or simply disembodied subjects.

译者虽然由原语文化可以自由穿透的玻璃球变成了译语文化可以自由穿越的玻璃球，但译者认知过程中的个体体验在翻译研究中依然缺席，译者依然仅仅是一个没有躯体体验的主体。

Chillingly, he claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned 'we would be been gone by now'.

令人毛骨悚然的，他声称我们的技术是'并不那么复杂，像他们一样，和"如果他们敌意"，他警告说，'我们将现在已经过去了。