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。
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。
He makes no pretensions to skill.
他并不自以为有技能。
Pretensions that will never be realized.
而那些矫饰的理想永远不会被实现。
He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
他自以为爱好文学和唯物主义。
He has no pretensions to being considered a scholar.
他并不要求被看作学者。
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。
Whatever his pretensions, Mr Lieberman is not ready to spearhead a revolt.
无论他用什么借口，利伯曼先生都不会带头反抗。
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。
This is no longer a world. It is simply a battlefield with pretensions of something more.
这已经不再是一个世界，它已经成了某种矫饰的理想的战场。
You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
多亏你使我明白过来，我既然认定一位小姐值得我去博她欢心，我又一味对她自命不凡，那是万万办不到的。
And science, while it diminishes our cosmic pretensions, enormously increases our terrestrial comfort.
科学，让我们在宇宙中感到渺小，却让我们在地球上感到得到极大的安慰。
In a country with massive energy needs, and pretensions to global-power status, that would be momentous.
在这样一个能源需求巨大，自命为世界大国的国家中，这份协议的意义极其重大。
Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.
他们在正义上的专业训练，只是他们的专业,或说自命表达其自负与野心。
Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition .
他们在正义上的专业训练，只是他们的专业，或说自命表达其自负与野心。
For the Chinese, eating goes beyond the pure necessity of nourishment, and has little in common with our gourmet pretensions.
对中国人来说，就餐不仅仅是单纯的为了营养，和我们为了追求美食家的称号也不近相同。
It is a cause of "love", and its "love" comes from the piety devoted to existence, instead of from pretensions and arrogances.
教育是“爱”的事业，教育的“爱”出于对存在的虔诚而不是出于加工或塑造的自大和傲慢。
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。
Mr Zubok poignantly details the lengthy and bitter decline that followed. The earthy Khrushchev resented the cultural elite's pretensions.
随后，祖博克痛心疾首地、细致地描述了这代俄国知识分子漫长而痛苦的衰落：粗俗的赫鲁晓夫厌恶文化精英的自命不凡；
This orthography might have confounded the pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte DE Gestas, of a descent from the wicked thief.
前一世纪的哲斯塔斯子爵自诩是那坏强盗的后代，他如果见了这种写法，也许不大高兴吧。
If they aim at obtaining some advantage in rank or fortune, nobody wishes them success, or will stir a step, or speak a word, to favour their pretensions.
他们如想地位改造或财富增加，别人谁也不会希望他们成功，没有人肯为成全他们的抱负而出力或出言。
Across the street is the 22-story Park Hotel, the tallest building in Asia when it went up in the early 1930s-and a symbol of Shanghai's earlier global pretensions.
街对面，是22层的公园酒店，30年代早期建成的时候，曾是亚洲最高的建筑和上海曾经做为国际都市的象征，它也是外来劳力的成果。
Sampras soon dominated the courts, not because of pretensions, but because of his ability to "ace" the ball: Sampras can serve it so hard that opponents can't return it.
桑普拉斯很快便纵横球场，靠的不是自命非凡，而是发球得分的能力：因为桑普拉斯发球力量很大，对手毫无还手的余地。
Yet since 2007 French diplomats have worked under the strain of an unresolved conflict between Mr Kouchner's moral pretensions and Mr Sarkozy's hands-on, hard-nosed style.
然而2007年以后，库什内的道德抱负和萨科奇的务实风格争论悬而未决，法国外交家们在他俩的分歧中一直处于紧张状态。
All I'm saying is, if Sheldon wasn't around to prick their pretensions with his precise needling, the amount of hot air those two boys emit would burst the bubble of Big Bang's ebullience.
我的意思是，如果不是谢尔登戳穿拉贾书和霍华德的自命不凡，这两个人的大话空话会毁掉《天才理论传》的精彩。
All I'm saying is, if Sheldon wasn't around to prick their pretensions with his precise needling, the amount of hot air those two boys emit would burst the bubble of Big Bang's ebullience.
我的意思是，如果不是谢尔登戳穿拉贾书和霍华德的自命不凡，这两个人的大话空话会毁掉《天才理论传》的精彩。
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