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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
  炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。
• They lived meanly and without ostentation.
  他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。
• 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。