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noun prɪˈtɛnʃ(ə)nprəˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n 1often pretensionsA claim or assertion of a claim to something. 要求，权利要求；权利 his pretensions to the imperial inheritance 他对继承帝国的要求。 mass noun all that we cannot tolerate is pretension to infallibility 我们最不能容忍的是自命永不犯错。 Example sentencesExamples - The question of noble pretension to property, privilege, and power thus emerges as the underlying problem of the old order.
- Another reaction to our new scientific powers is what I will call the Malthusian Pretension - that is, the pretension to the ability to predict mankind's limitations.
- The football World Cup is gradually overtaking the Olympic Games as the leading sporting festival because it has never had much pretension to virtue.
- As a result, the pretension to universality is all the more justified as researchers find themselves working in decontextualized and highly formalized fields.
- Intelligence's pretension to being objective is a hoax because those parts of it that do not reconfirm the power structure's interests and predetermined policies are ignored and discarded.
- This much may be expected of a state with pretensions to sovereignty and legitimacy, and certainly this much may be expected of good neighbours.
- Budgets were cut right back and all pretension to filmmaking disappeared.
- By the end of that decade, any pretensions to national independence had become thoroughly discredited.
- It's not exactly simple, but it has no pretensions to art either.
- Further irritation comes from the increasing pretension to rationality that Alex's nonsense illustrates.
- Member governments identified where their national interests overlapped, without any pretension to a common foreign policy.
Synonyms aspiration, claim, assertion, pretence, profession, purporting - 1.1often pretensions A claim or aspiration to a particular quality.
another ageing rocker with literary pretensions 又一个有文学野心的过气摇滚歌手。 Example sentencesExamples - If grilled about it in a focus group, I'd admit that the pretensions and some of the practices of social research make me uneasy.
- Conrad condemned the abuses of the Belgians, and he condemned a little bit of the excesses and pretensions of the English, but he saw no alternative to colonialism.
- Preferably female and extremely annoying, with literary pretensions.
- It's all great fun and manages some terrific gags along the way, savaging lots of Hollywood pretensions and familiar scams.
- Another teen romance with pretensions of saying something more.
- I would also march in the streets for my right to argue against its literary pretensions.
- Today, you have a new generation of books and authors with no literary pretensions.
- The only one that has been put with any force in favour of work which has no pretensions to literary or artistic merit, is that it may have a psychotherapeutic value.
- All artifice, all human pretensions and deceptions are stripped away, to the extent that the reader has to fight the urge not to avert their eyes, so intimate is what is left.
- The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn.
- More biased to on-road luxury, with no real sporting pretensions and limited off-road capability.
- It's quite possibly the worst film in the series, and is certainly the most meaningless, despite its shadows of thematic pretensions.
- Ellen set aside all pretensions and spoke as honestly as she knew how.
- None of the leads have any pretensions of making an astute character study or biting social commentary.
- With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery.
- Despite egalitarian pretensions, America has always been split between the ruling class - and the rest.
- His own daughters see through his pretensions.
- The important thing is that no one with literary pretensions should be allowed near the project!
- His ideological pretensions, which justified the mass murder of political opponents, had acquired religious overtones.
- Maybe I'll throw my literary pretensions out of the window for a while and try hurling a few oddly-shaped shards of prose in your direction.
2mass noun The use of affectation to impress; pretentiousness. 矫饰，造作；虚荣 he spoke simply, without pretension 他话语平实，不矫揉造作。 Example sentencesExamples - Its very simplicity serves as a correction to the elaborate artifice and pretension - most of it hollow - that pervade current dance-making.
- He has staked out his claim for being a great critic through portentousness, pomposity, and extravagant pretension, and, from all appearances, seems to have achieved it.
- This is a place with no need for pretension, shameless self-promotion or global snobbery.
- Crowded around tables the size of Frisbees, people pose in a pageant of pretension.
- He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension.
- There is often a tendency toward extravagance and pretension.
- This was a band of the Midwest, no attitude, no pretension and always able to laugh at themselves.
- He has no pretension, no attitude, requires no ‘look at me’ props.
- Without such a justification, is there a danger of having the work dismissed as pretension or posturing or, at worse, accused of naiveté?
- The men talk about him resentfully, sick of his haughty attitude and pretension.
- It is rare to see such unusual gifts of public speaking accompanied by such a complete lack of arrogance or pretension.
- Volunteers, on the other hand, are obviously not doing this in the name of any kind of mulish pretension: they simply love the music and feel driven to play it.
- I agree, it's idiotic: pure pretension, a banal triumph of style over substance.
- His formula starts with the best parts of country house hotel cooking - well-sourced raw ingredients and capably prepared, stripped of any pomposity or pretension.
- I think ‘distasteful,’ ‘gross’ and ‘a new low for your magazine’ are words of snobbery and pretension.
- When she is there with you, she is simply there, with no pretension, no elaboration, no show.
- Rather we read Mark because he is an expert at exposing sham, pretension, and hypocrisy, and because he was the greatest American humorist of the 19th century.
- He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
- His trust in us was so refreshing and his attitude so free of pretension that I now regret not doing his ironing.
- Located in the heart of West Palm Beach, it's a moneyed, up-market environment, big on designer flash and not short on pose and pretension.
Synonyms pretentiousness, affectation, affectedness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, artificiality, attitudinizing, airs, posing, posturing, showing off, hypocrisy, snobbery, show, flashiness pomposity, pompousness, floweriness, grandiosity, grandness, grandiloquence, magniloquence, elaborateness, extravagance, heroics, flamboyance, ornateness, bombast, turgidity, rhetoric, pedantry informal la-di-da British informal side Australian/New Zealand informal guyver rare fustian, flatulence
OriginLate Middle English: from medieval Latin praetensio(n-), from praetens- 'alleged', from the verb praetendere (see pretend). verbˈpriːtɛnʃ(ə)npriˈtɛn(t)ʃən [with object]1Apply tension to (an object) during manufacture or prior to some other process. the safety system pretensions the seat belts Example sentencesExamples - If the sensor net determined that a collision was imminent, the system could brake the vehicle, pre-charge the airbags, pre-tension the seatbelts, and plot a path to impact that would result in the least likelihood of injury or death.
- The passenger bag was an option, but standard also was side impact protection, pre-tensioning seatbelts, and anti-dive front seats.
- Using the car's many electronic sensors, Pre-Safe can anticipate an accident and pre-tension seatbelts, close windows and move seats into the optimum position before the worst happens.
- Mercedes has a similar system on the S-Class called ‘Pre-Safe’ that pre-tensions the seatbelts, adjusts the seats to their optimal crash position if necessary, and closes the sunroof should the vehicle skid.
- The Musso also has ABS brakes, traction control, driver's side airbag, pre-tensioned safety belts and side impact protection bars.
- 1.1 Strengthen (reinforced concrete) by applying tension to the reinforcing rods before the concrete has set.
Example sentencesExamples - Concrete can be prestressed in a factory by tensioning the steel reinforcement first and then placing concrete around it - ‘pre-tensioned’ reinforcement.
- Dowel bars are similar steel bars installed across joints to provide resistance to shear, but are not pre-tensioned.
- Effectively an evolution of the familiar DSC traction control system, DSC + offers a range of benefits, including brake standby that pre-tensions the brakes when the driver quickly removes the pressure from the accelerator pedal.
- Pretension stiffens cables against deflection, and fabric or foil, also pre-tensioned, can be used between the cables to create very large spans.
- Sensors will detect out-of-position occupants and smart belts will pre-tension to position your body correctly so the airbag can intercept you properly.
nounprəˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nprəˈten(t)SH(ə)n 1often pretensionsA claim or assertion of a claim to something. 要求，权利要求；权利 we cannot tolerate pretension to infallibility 我们最不能容忍的是自命永不犯错。 their pretensions to culture Example sentencesExamples - Budgets were cut right back and all pretension to filmmaking disappeared.
- Further irritation comes from the increasing pretension to rationality that Alex's nonsense illustrates.
- Member governments identified where their national interests overlapped, without any pretension to a common foreign policy.
- Intelligence's pretension to being objective is a hoax because those parts of it that do not reconfirm the power structure's interests and predetermined policies are ignored and discarded.
- It's not exactly simple, but it has no pretensions to art either.
- By the end of that decade, any pretensions to national independence had become thoroughly discredited.
- The question of noble pretension to property, privilege, and power thus emerges as the underlying problem of the old order.
- Another reaction to our new scientific powers is what I will call the Malthusian Pretension - that is, the pretension to the ability to predict mankind's limitations.
- This much may be expected of a state with pretensions to sovereignty and legitimacy, and certainly this much may be expected of good neighbours.
- The football World Cup is gradually overtaking the Olympic Games as the leading sporting festival because it has never had much pretension to virtue.
- As a result, the pretension to universality is all the more justified as researchers find themselves working in decontextualized and highly formalized fields.
Synonyms aspiration, claim, assertion, pretence, profession, purporting - 1.1often pretensions An aspiration or claim to a certain status or quality.
抱负，雄心，愿望 another aging rocker with literary pretensions 又一个有文学野心的过气摇滚歌手。 Example sentencesExamples - Another teen romance with pretensions of saying something more.
- The important thing is that no one with literary pretensions should be allowed near the project!
- His ideological pretensions, which justified the mass murder of political opponents, had acquired religious overtones.
- His own daughters see through his pretensions.
- All artifice, all human pretensions and deceptions are stripped away, to the extent that the reader has to fight the urge not to avert their eyes, so intimate is what is left.
- Preferably female and extremely annoying, with literary pretensions.
- It's all great fun and manages some terrific gags along the way, savaging lots of Hollywood pretensions and familiar scams.
- If grilled about it in a focus group, I'd admit that the pretensions and some of the practices of social research make me uneasy.
- It's quite possibly the worst film in the series, and is certainly the most meaningless, despite its shadows of thematic pretensions.
- Conrad condemned the abuses of the Belgians, and he condemned a little bit of the excesses and pretensions of the English, but he saw no alternative to colonialism.
- Despite egalitarian pretensions, America has always been split between the ruling class - and the rest.
- With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery.
- The only one that has been put with any force in favour of work which has no pretensions to literary or artistic merit, is that it may have a psychotherapeutic value.
- Today, you have a new generation of books and authors with no literary pretensions.
- Maybe I'll throw my literary pretensions out of the window for a while and try hurling a few oddly-shaped shards of prose in your direction.
- None of the leads have any pretensions of making an astute character study or biting social commentary.
- Ellen set aside all pretensions and spoke as honestly as she knew how.
- The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn.
- I would also march in the streets for my right to argue against its literary pretensions.
- More biased to on-road luxury, with no real sporting pretensions and limited off-road capability.
2The use of affectation to impress; ostentatiousness. 矫饰，造作；虚荣 he spoke simply, without pretension 他话语平实，不矫揉造作。 Example sentencesExamples - I agree, it's idiotic: pure pretension, a banal triumph of style over substance.
- Crowded around tables the size of Frisbees, people pose in a pageant of pretension.
- He has no pretension, no attitude, requires no ‘look at me’ props.
- This was a band of the Midwest, no attitude, no pretension and always able to laugh at themselves.
- When she is there with you, she is simply there, with no pretension, no elaboration, no show.
- He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
- Its very simplicity serves as a correction to the elaborate artifice and pretension - most of it hollow - that pervade current dance-making.
- Without such a justification, is there a danger of having the work dismissed as pretension or posturing or, at worse, accused of naiveté?
- It is rare to see such unusual gifts of public speaking accompanied by such a complete lack of arrogance or pretension.
- This is a place with no need for pretension, shameless self-promotion or global snobbery.
- He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension.
- Volunteers, on the other hand, are obviously not doing this in the name of any kind of mulish pretension: they simply love the music and feel driven to play it.
- Rather we read Mark because he is an expert at exposing sham, pretension, and hypocrisy, and because he was the greatest American humorist of the 19th century.
- His formula starts with the best parts of country house hotel cooking - well-sourced raw ingredients and capably prepared, stripped of any pomposity or pretension.
- His trust in us was so refreshing and his attitude so free of pretension that I now regret not doing his ironing.
- He has staked out his claim for being a great critic through portentousness, pomposity, and extravagant pretension, and, from all appearances, seems to have achieved it.
- Located in the heart of West Palm Beach, it's a moneyed, up-market environment, big on designer flash and not short on pose and pretension.
- I think ‘distasteful,’ ‘gross’ and ‘a new low for your magazine’ are words of snobbery and pretension.
- The men talk about him resentfully, sick of his haughty attitude and pretension.
- There is often a tendency toward extravagance and pretension.
Synonyms pretentiousness, affectation, affectedness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, artificiality, attitudinizing, airs, posing, posturing, showing off, hypocrisy, snobbery, show, flashiness
OriginLate Middle English: from medieval Latin praetensio(n-), from praetens- ‘alleged’, from the verb praetendere (see pretend). verbprēˈten(t)SHənpriˈtɛn(t)ʃən [with object]1Apply tension to (an object) during manufacture or prior to some other process. the safety system pretensions the seat belts Example sentencesExamples - If the sensor net determined that a collision was imminent, the system could brake the vehicle, pre-charge the airbags, pre-tension the seatbelts, and plot a path to impact that would result in the least likelihood of injury or death.
- The passenger bag was an option, but standard also was side impact protection, pre-tensioning seatbelts, and anti-dive front seats.
- Using the car's many electronic sensors, Pre-Safe can anticipate an accident and pre-tension seatbelts, close windows and move seats into the optimum position before the worst happens.
- Mercedes has a similar system on the S-Class called ‘Pre-Safe’ that pre-tensions the seatbelts, adjusts the seats to their optimal crash position if necessary, and closes the sunroof should the vehicle skid.
- The Musso also has ABS brakes, traction control, driver's side airbag, pre-tensioned safety belts and side impact protection bars.
- 1.1 Strengthen (reinforced concrete) by applying tension to the reinforcing rods before the concrete has set.
Example sentencesExamples - Effectively an evolution of the familiar DSC traction control system, DSC + offers a range of benefits, including brake standby that pre-tensions the brakes when the driver quickly removes the pressure from the accelerator pedal.
- Dowel bars are similar steel bars installed across joints to provide resistance to shear, but are not pre-tensioned.
- Pretension stiffens cables against deflection, and fabric or foil, also pre-tensioned, can be used between the cables to create very large spans.
- Concrete can be prestressed in a factory by tensioning the steel reinforcement first and then placing concrete around it - ‘pre-tensioned’ reinforcement.
- Sensors will detect out-of-position occupants and smart belts will pre-tension to position your body correctly so the airbag can intercept you properly.
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