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单词 purportedly
释义
purportpur‧port1 /pɜːˈpɔːt $ pɜːrˈpɔːrt/ verb [intransitive, transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
purport
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theypurport
he, she, itpurports
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theypurported
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave purported
he, she, ithas purported
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad purported
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill purport
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have purported
Continuous Form
PresentIam purporting
he, she, itis purporting
you, we, theyare purporting
PastI, he, she, itwas purporting
you, we, theywere purporting
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been purporting
he, she, ithas been purporting
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been purporting
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be purporting
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been purporting
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Clearing the house after a relative died, I came across what purports to be a passport to Hay-on-Wye.
  • It is true that this model does not purport to describe accurately the way in which the market economy actually functions.
  • Such books purport to present the past ` as it was', taking for granted that this is what photographs do.
  • The relationship between an image and the reality it purports to represent is, according to many contemporary critics, inherently political.
  • Wasn't Rune Christensen as much a player of games as the man he purported to despise?
  • Wolfgang von Goethe, recently liberated from his university studies of law, visited Ensisheim in 1771 to see the purported meteorite.
formal to claim to be or do something, even if this is not truepurport to do something Two undercover officers purporting to be dealers infiltrated the gang.be purported to be something The document is purported to be 300 years old.purportedly adverb:  a portrait purportedly of Shakespeare
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