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 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The letter purports to express people's opinion.
  这封信声称是表达民众的意见。
• 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。
• 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 be official but is really private.
  那份文件据称是官方的，但实际上是私人的。
• That screen purports to offer the customer$ 10 off their most recent purchase.
  这个页面声称自己给客户刚刚购买的服务折去了10美元。
• 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。