The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.

这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。

The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.

该城市不切实际地声称为世界一流城市。

Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.

她的天真无邪很快就暴露出艺术界的做作。

He makes no pretensions to skill.

他并不自以为有技能。

Yet here pretensions meet hard reality.

然而自负遇到了残酷的事实。