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

• 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。
• They have published stacks of studies ( and a Book) purporting to show that minimum wages hit jobs.
  他们发布了大量的研究成果（以及一本书）意图说明最低工资会减少就业机会。
• The Daily Mail included photographs purporting to be the Queen gambling on horse racing amongst her subjects at a local Bookmaker.
  《每日邮报》刊图指出，英国女王和她的臣民们在当地的一家***店里***。
• 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。
• No registered ship shall fly any colours purporting to be or closely resembling the proper colours which are not the proper colours.
  注册船舶不得悬挂看来是或近似正确船旗但实在并非正确船旗的船旗。
• 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。
• There were advertisements for cosmetics purporting to delay the development of wrinkles.
  有些化妆品广告煞有介事地声称能延缓皱纹的出现。
• 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
• China shall clarify relevant procedural issues and supplementary and cooperative systems as soon as possible, purporting to establish and improve the legal system of non-extradition of the capital fugitives of China.
  中国应尽早明确有关的程序性问题和配套制度，建立和完善中国的死刑犯不引渡制度。
• 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。