pretender
pretender 英 [prɪˈtendə(r)] 美 [prɪˈtɛndɚ]
n. 冒牌者；妄求者；妄提要求者
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- n. 冒牌者；妄求者；妄提要求者
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1. Groom a pretender (for lack of a better word), build a coalition, and wait for your CEO to screw up, which he will if he is a short-termer.
物色一个觊觎者（找不到更好的词汇）、打造一个联盟，等待你的CEO出丑，如果他是一个关注短期效益的人，他会出丑的。
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2. No pretender is pan-regional enough, and only Africa’s linguistic situation may be sufficiently fluid to have its future choices influenced by outsiders.
泛区域性的替代者是没有影响的，而且只有非洲的语言境况会改变很快，因为它的未来被外界所左右。
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3. Every expert has a story about a “blind” test in which several instruments are played out of sight and the listeners have to guess which is the Strad and which the modern pretender.
每一个专家都有一个关于蒙眼测试的故事。 在蒙眼测试中，参加测试者不见乐器只闻其声，靠听力辨别哪是用斯特拉瓦迪演奏，哪是用现代小提琴演奏。
- pretender (n.) 1590s, "one who intends;" 1620s as "one who puts forth a claim;" agent noun from pretend (v.). Specifically of a claimant to the English throne from 1690s.
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