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

• This does a disservice to the very public for which CSPI purports to serve.
  这对于CSPI的服务对象来说反而是一种伤害行为。
• 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 problems this bill purports to address are already being resolved.
  该法案意图处理的问题早已解决了。
• Any product that egregiously violates experience goals will ultimately fail, regardless of how well it purports to achieve other goals.
  任何违背了体验目标的系统最终会失败，而不管这些系统声称自己如何出色地实现了其他目标。
• 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。
• In too many aspects it looks like a charter for corporate America rather than the high-level trade agreement it purports to be.
  在太多方面，TPP看起来更像是颁给美国企业的许可证，而非其声称的那种高规格贸易协定。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• A grand design that purports to unite disparate elements.
  旨在把根本不同的要素结合起来的一项宏伟设计。