purporting

英 [pəˈpɔːtɪŋ]

美 [pərˈpɔːrtɪŋ]

v.  自称; 标榜
purport的现在分词

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

• They had reportedly taken counterfeit copies of drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction but which contained a hefty dose of glyburide, used for treating diabetes.
  据报告，他们曾服用假冒药物，据称可治疗阳痿，但却含有大量用于治疗糖尿病的格列本脲。
• Various fraudulent schemes purporting to be from or associated with the World Health Organization ( WHO), have been circulating.
  各种声称来自或与世界卫生组织（世卫组织）有关联的欺诈计划在四处传播。
• Discovering this, the mischievous boy wrote Meg a passionate love-letter, purporting to be from Brooke.
  劳里这个淘气的孩子，发现了这个秘密，就以布鲁克的名义给梅格写了一封热情洋溢的情书。
• Isis posted images on Twitter purporting to show the execution of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers, inflaming passions among the Shia community, although the pictures could not be verified.
  Isis在Twitter上发布了据称是处决数百名伊拉克士兵的图片，点燃了什叶派民众进行反击的热情，尽管这些图片的真实性还有待考证。
• A photograph purporting to be the first sighting of a South China tiger for more than 30 years has prompted a search for the endangered animal.
  一张据称是30多年来首次拍到的华南虎照片，掀起了寻找这种濒危动物的热潮。
• To its defenders, trash has the virtue of honesty-of not purporting to be anything other than what it is, which is, well, trash
  对其拥护者而言，垃圾文化自有一种诚实的美德&决不承认自己是任何其他东西，垃圾，就是垃圾
• Therefore, much was made of a recent Pew Research poll purporting to show a sharp rise in conflicts between rich and poor.
  因此，皮尤研究中心（PewResearch）最近一项旨在表明贫富之间冲突急剧上升的调查就显得特别耐人寻味。
• Cindy Adams ( Columnist): He's not purporting to be Mother Teresa.
  辛迪•亚当斯（专栏作家）：他无意成为德兰修女。
• Professor Finkelstein's comments came on the same day a video emerged purporting to show'a mothership and its fleet'zipping around in the clouds above a BBC building in central London.
  Finkelstein发表这一言论的同一天，在英国有人拍下了这样一段视频画面，在伦敦市中心的英国广播公司BBC的大楼上空，在云层之上出现了疑似外太空飞船和其舰队的踪迹。
• A letter purporting to come from his father
  声称来自他父亲的一封信