ostentation

英 [ˌɒstenˈteɪʃn]

美 [ˌɑːstenˈteɪʃn]

n.  (对财富、知识、技能的)炫耀，卖弄，夸示

IELTSGRE

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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

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
  Synonym:ostentatiousnesspompositypompousnesspretentiousnesspuffinesssplashinessinflation
• a gaudy outward display
  Synonym:fanfareflash

双语例句

• Collectors have become less concerned with ostentation than with authenticity.
  收藏家也变得更加关注可靠性而不是排场。
• She had a small property, which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community.
  她有一份小小的财产，已经大吹大擂地捐给一个宗教团体了。
• Jin is the linguistics research relative deterioration time, when Neo-Confucianism was prosperous and the traditional study atmosphere changed ostentation to coxcombry.
  金朝是语言学研究相对衰败的时期，当时理学兴盛，传统经学风气从朴实转变为虚浮。
• 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。
• The statue has beauty without ostentation.
  那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。
• 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。
• However, this kind of separate frequently is misunderstood for merely is actually in one artistic creation method asks the new variation or is wins favor by ostentation, after but has neglected under the modernism ideological trend words construction the social collective esthetic psychology vicissitude.
  然而，这种割裂却常常被误解为仅仅是一种艺术创作方法上的求新变异或者是哗众取宠，而忽略了后现代主义思潮话语建构下社会集体审美心理的变迁。
• My distaste for any ostentation.
  我对任何炫耀的厌恶。
• Received by the impact of commercial society, the worship of the ordinary populace gradually desalinated to the truth and the hero by the obvious mammonism and utilitarianism, display one kind of pursue of fabrication and ostentation.
  受到商业社会的冲击，普通大众对真理、对英雄的崇拜逐渐被明显的拜金主义和功利主义所淡化，表现出一种追求虚妄、浮华的心理状态。
• Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
  选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。