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

• 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。
• If Oswald or someone purporting to be oswald.
  若奥斯华或宣称是奥斯华的人。
• Unfortunately, the antitrust law purporting to eliminate administrative monopoly ignores property, a core institution that exerts an important effect on protection.
  消除行政垄断的反垄断法方案，不得忽视产权这一对竞争有重要影响的制度核心。
• 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。
• 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博彩店里赌马。
• Any document purporting to be a document duly executed under the common seal of the Council shall, unless there is evidence to the contrary, be deemed to be a document so executed and shall be received in evidence without further proof.
  任何看来是用评审局法团印章妥为签立的文件，除非有相反证据，否则须视作妥为签立的文件，且无须其它证明而须接受为证据。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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