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
- More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。 - A man of culture, he genuinely despises the self-made industrialist and newspaper-king: with a oldest professional salary and a little private income of his own, he regards money-making as vulgar and avoids all ostentation.
作为有文化修养的人，他毫不掩饰地鄙视白手起家的实业家和报业大王；他只拿中等职业薪水和自己少量私人收入，他视赚钱为庸俗并避免一切炫耀卖弄。 - Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。 - 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。 - The statue has beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。 - The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。 - 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。 - My distaste for any ostentation.
我对任何炫耀的厌恶。