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
- Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - They lived meanly and without ostentation.
他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。 - 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。 - Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。 - My distaste for any ostentation.
我对任何炫耀的厌恶。