The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.

这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。

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。

Yet here pretensions meet hard reality.

然而自负遇到了残酷的事实。

A home is just a house with pretensions.

家，就是一个装满了虚荣的房子。

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。

Meanwhile, the NTC broadcasts its hopeful pretensions for the future.

在此期间，全国过渡委员会(ntc)广播其希冀的美好未来。

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。

Other teams with pretensions to challenge the top three should take note.

其他有野心打入前三的球队要留心了。

But for all his grandiose pretensions, he is a buffoon-and a particularly nasty one.

但尽管有如天高般的自负，他也只不过是一个小丑——而且是最下流的那种。

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。

My literary pretensions made C splutter with laughter, but poetry weaves a potent spell.

我木讷的搞怪做作让C捧腹大笑。但是诗歌却编织了一个强有力的诅咒。

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。

The cats must unsheath their claws and lacerate the kings, ripping away their regal pretensions.

猫必须伸出爪子去抓挠国王，撕破他们帝王式的自命不凡。

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。

They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions.

他们害怕暴露自己的弱点，因此将自己隐藏在层层骄傲和矫饰之下。

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。

But relations with America will be pricklier than expected, partly because his pretensions to big-power status irk Washington.

但与美国的关系将会比预期的有更多磕绊，部分归因于他自命不凡的大国姿态让华盛顿很不爽。

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。