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
- 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。 - Ostentation of Economy and Ruins of Culture& Comparative Research on Jia Ping'ao's Ruined City and Yexin's Prosperous City
两都赋:经济的浮华与文化的废墟&贾平凹的《废都》与叶辛的《华都》的比较研究 - Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生,而不是炫耀的一生。 - 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。 - He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.
他忽视那时代公开的虚饰,就像私人的不幸一样。 - The statue has beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。 - Maxim restaurant While ostentation, but it is not absolutely can not afford anything.
马克西姆餐厅的排场虽然大,但也并非是绝对消费不起的。 - My distaste for any ostentation.
我对任何炫耀的厌恶。 - More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。 - 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。