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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
He makes no pretensions to skill.
他并不自以为有技能。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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. It too was built by migrant labor.
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。
Pretensions that will never be realized.
而那些矫饰的理想永远不会被实现。
Pretensions that will never be realized.
而那些矫饰的理想永远不会被实现。
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