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

• The statue has beauty without ostentation.
  那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
  炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。