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自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰
If you say that someone has pretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.
例句
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world...
她的天真烂漫很快就暴露了艺术界的矫揉造作。
We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.
我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。