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
- 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。 - More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。 - Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。 - 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。 - 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。 - Reports of his tax policies suggest that Shah Jahan may have appropriated as much as 40 per cent of what we now call gross domestic product to support a lifestyle of exceptional ostentation and self-indulgence.
有关沙贾汗（shahjahan）税收政策的报告似乎显示，他可能挪用了40%我们现在所称的“国内生产总值”，以支持自己穷奢极侈的生活方式。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。