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
- 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。 - My distaste for any ostentation.
我对任何炫耀的厌恶。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。 - Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。 - 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。 - 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。