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单词

pretentious

读音
prɪˈtenʃəs
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释义

adj. 自命不凡的;炫耀的;做作的 [ 比较级 more pretentious 最高级 most pretentious ]

例句

Ironically, now that photography is securely established as fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such.
具有讽刺意味的是,现在摄影已被牢固地确立为美术,许多摄影师发现将其贴上标签是自命不凡或无关紧要的。
That's a pretentious name for a dog!
狗叫这个名字真够炫的!
He's so pretentious!
瞧他那副自命不凡的样儿!

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And that was fantastic. And I thought that was it.But then there was another wonderfully pretentious articlethat came out in The New Republic, so pretentious,
In his essay, "Politics and the English Language,"he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority,or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms
But I want to make it clear: there is no such thing as silence.And I know this sounds like the most pretentious TED Talk statement ever.But even if you were to enter a room with zero reverberation
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