1 N-VAR 自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰 If you say that someone has pretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are. 自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰 [disapproval]
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Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world. [+ of]
她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。
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We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.
我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。
SYN affectation, hypocrisy, conceit, show
2 N-UNCOUNT [NOUN to-infinitive] 声称；标榜；自称 If someone has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing. 声称；标榜；自称
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The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status. [+ to]
这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。
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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。
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