Pretentious

(adj.) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; 'a pretentious country house'; 'a pretentious fraud'; 'a pretentious scholarly edition' .

手打:托德

• The intricate and pretentious art of diplomacy developed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The more pretentious and better furnished home of the superintendent of the estate, together with the storehouses, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Edison's second electric railroad of 1882 was more pretentious as regards length, construction, and equipment. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• At the present time the studios in which motion pictures are taken are expensive and pretentious affairs. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

录入:罗兰