purports

英 [pəˈpɔːts]

美 [pərˈpɔːrts]

v.  自称; 标榜
purport的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 声称；自称；标榜
  If you say that someone or somethingpurports todo or be a particular thing, you mean that they claim to do or be that thing, although you may not always believe that claim.
  1. ...a book that purports to tell the whole truth.
     声称要讲述全部事实的一本书

双语例句

• The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.
  商业广告中所宣扬的那种幸福观，其致命的缺陷就在于这样一个事实，即它宣称，一切幸福皆唾手可得，不费吹灰之力。
• The development of environmental manage measure, the origin and progress, principles, characteristics, purports, basic technique, application and limits of life-cycle assessment were summarized.
  本文系统地概述了环境管理工具的发展，生命周期评价的起源和发展，思想框架，主要特点、意义、评价基本方法及其应用、局限性。
• I invite the House to vote against the Government's motion and not to support a motion which purports to take us faster into a Community which cannot reflect the aspirations of those who pur us here.
  我在此敦请下院投票反对政府议案，你们不该支持一个自诩要把我们尽快带入欧共体的议案，因为这个欧共体不能反映选派我们来这里的人民的意愿。
• The document purports to is an official statement.
  该文件据称是一项正式声明。
• The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural.
  巫术通过祁求神灵而达到得以控制或预测自然事件、结果或者力量目的手段。
• Maxwell purports that in every culture, society and nation, people ask those three questions of their leaders, and they do so continually.
  麦克斯韦尔表示，在任何一种文化、社会和国家中，人们都会一直关注这三个问题。
• The theory complements the "sociometer model" that purports self-esteem has evolved as a marker for people's social status.
  这个理论填补了“社会关系测量学模式”的空白，该模式声称：自尊已逐渐成为人们社会地位的标识。
• The other priority should be to do what the Franco-German legislation purports to do, but on a grander scale: provide adequate insurance that banks do not bring down the economy and hold taxpayers at ransom.
  另一优先事务是要做到法德立法提案中声称要做的事，不过要采取重拳：构建充分的保障机制，防止银行拖累经济和“勒索”纳税人。
• Part of their proof is the picture below, which purports to have been taken inside the ark.
  部分证据就是下面的照片，据说是在方舟内部拍照的。
• The document purports to be official but is really private.
  那份文件据称是官方的，但实际上是私人的。