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
- The statue has beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。 - 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。 - 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。 - In fame of learning, the flight will be slow without some feathers of ostentation.
在学问底名声方面,若没有一些夸耀底羽毛,则这种名声底飞腾是很慢的。 - Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生,而不是炫耀的一生。 - They lived meanly and without ostentation.
他们生活很节俭,一点也不摆阔。