ostentation
英 [ˌɒstenˈteɪʃn]
美 [ˌɑːstenˈteɪʃn]
n. (对财富、知识、技能的)炫耀,卖弄,夸示
BNC.32895 / COCA.30755
牛津词典
noun
- (对财富、知识、技能的)炫耀,卖弄,夸示
an exaggerated display of wealth, knowledge or skill that is made in order to impress people
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 炫耀;夸示;卖弄
If you describe someone's behaviour asostentation, you are criticizing them for doing or buying things in order to impress people.- Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s...
消费者摒弃了20世纪80年代铺张摆阔的陋习。 - On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.
大体上说,她生活俭朴,不事张扬。
- Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s...
英英释义
noun
- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- a gaudy outward display
双语例句
- Oh, Tiger Woods, John Terry, Ashley Cole, Mark Owen ( and the rest), you got hitched with all the ostentation of wealth, only to be left with skinny, sad wives and a reputation in tatters.
你看,老虎伍兹,约翰特里,阿什利科尔,马克欧文,他们都与那些有财富排场的女人结婚,但最后却让这些可怜瘦弱的妻子们独守空房,而他们自己也名誉扫地。 - Women's hats went through periods of astonishing ostentation, the last being the years preceding World War I.
女帽则经历了一些非常夸饰的时期,最后的这种阶段是发生在第一次世界大战前几年。 - More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。 - They lived meanly and without ostentation.
他们生活很节俭,一点也不摆阔。 - Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。 - In6, the formation of the team, not one-sided pursuit of ostentation, establish long team, lead to the harmonious and unified, easy to cause the accident.
在组建车队时,不要片面地追求排场,组建过长车队,导致无法协调统一,容易造成事故。 - Lavishment, ostentation and extravagance, banquet, all these are to fulfill personal selfish desire, power and battle.
浪费,排场,宴会都是来满足个人的私欲,权力和斗争。 - Exhibiting no pretensions, boastfulness, or ostentation; modest.
不装腔作势的不装腔作势的,不夸耀的;不铺张招摇的;谦逊。 - The official media announced that he had failed to overcome errors such as abuse of authority and ostentation.
官方媒体宣称这是因为他没能改掉滥用职权和浮夸的错误。 - Socrates, Aristotle, Galen, were men full of ostentation.
苏格拉底、亚里士多德、盖伦,都是富于夸耀性的人。