pretensions

Except his mild little wife there was not a thing with any pretensions to attractiveness about this household.

除了他那温柔娇小的太太之外，这个家庭没有一件东西配得上吸引人。

Edith Wilson was by no means the benign figure of her pretensions; the president far less than the hero of his aspirations.

伊迪丝·威尔逊决不是她自称的善良角色；总统也远非他所期望的英雄。

Leaving aside deliberate pretensions, a person tends to project the same personality through all means of communication.

除故意之外，一个人一般在所有交流方式中都展示了同样的个性。

Instead, the government looks unlikely either to surrender any of Britain's global pretensions or to be willing to pay for them.

但正相反，政府似乎既不愿意放弃英国的任何全球抱负，也不愿意为这些抱负埋单。

A series of rotating coalitions, however, would not measure up to European pretensions to being taken seriously in near abroad.

不过，一系列成员不断变换的联盟，不会让欧洲在周边地区得到重视的愿望成真。

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。

Trade up the Hudson river was controlled by an aristocratic elite with pretensions to secure a steamboat monopoly.

哈迪孙河上的贸易被贵族精英阶层以保护蒸汽机船独占权为名所控制。

You know its pretensions. They give themselves the air of demigods .

你们也知道他们如何盛气凌人，自比神明。

Quite early in its career Buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the Brahmins.

佛教创立之初，很快就同婆罗门日益增长的矫饰自负发生了冲突。

During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.

在她订婚的日子里一个哪怕是最不善做作的姑娘也比在其他日子里期望更多的鲜花。

After that, perhaps, the pretensions of corporate America could never have had much hold on him.

也许，自那以后，美国企业团体就再也找不到针对麦克尔斯的把柄了。

It has no cut scenes, no back story, no pretensions.

该游戏没有场景切换，没有背景故事，没有主张。

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。

To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.

感谢读者，用宽容的耳朵倾听了一个朴实平凡的故事。

He has no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.

他并不以这方面专家自居。

Most European nations are now embarking on budget cuts, further undermining pretensions to a separate European policy.

大部分欧洲国家如今着手削减预算，进一步损害了建立独立欧洲政策的主张。

On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses.

街对面有家不怎么豪华的饭店，是个胃口大但囊中羞涩的食客的好去处。

Without it there would be nothing left of its global pretensions.

没有欧洲，法国在全球就不会剩下多少话语权。

The internationalist pretensions of Hagi's most famous son notwithstanding, the foreigners living there these days are few and far between.

尽管这位萩城这位最著名的儿子享有着国际主义者的称号，目前居住在此的外国人却很稀少。

Besides, despite academia's pretensions to objectivity, it is as subject to political considerations as any area of human endeavour.

此外，尽管学术界的自命不凡客观存在着【客观】，但是，就像在人类努力的任何领域中它仍然是政治考量的对象。