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

• Selfish behavior that purports to be altruistic.
  自称是利他主义的自私行为。
• And thus I found myself contacting ad hominem, a two-woman firm that purports to bring Savile row to your doorstep.
  因此我联系了仅有两个女性员工的公司adhominem，该公司的宗旨是将萨维尔街服饰带到你的家门口。
• The paper purports to make an analysis of the construction of a new interpretation model and its implication in the perspective of text linguistics.
  本文旨在从语篇语言学的视角对口译模式构建及其启示进行分析。
• The document purports to is an official statement.
  该文件据称是一项正式声明。
• As a result, each book purports to present something new and interesting about the authors'interpretations of the values and principles.
  这就导致几乎每一本书都宣称自己介绍了一些作者关于价值和原则的新的有趣的想法。
• 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。
• 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。
• The letter purports to express people's opinion.
  这封信声称是表达民众的意见。
• 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。
• Beijing cannot dream of selling down its Treasury holdings without triggering the very dollar collapse it purports to dread.
  北京不可能幻想抛售所持美国国债，而不会引发它据称担心的美元崩溃。