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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Selfish behavior that purports to be altruistic.
  自称是利他主义的自私行为。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• A new process has been reported recently, which purports to make electrolytic treatment of dilute copper cyanide solutions economically attractive.
  最近报道了一个新的方法，意欲使电解处理稀氰化铜溶液在经济上更吸引人。
• 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。