英语释义

• pretentious or showy or vulgar display

• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

• a showy outward display

片语

hotdogger卖弄

ostentation E夸示

ostentation and extravagance排场

Love Ostentation讲排场

frills虚饰，臭架子

reduce ostentation黔浮华

Free from ostentation or pretension端庄的

Free from showiness or ostentation不自命不凡的

英汉例句

• choose a life of action, not one of ostentation .

  选择举动的终身而不是卖弄的终身。

• the palace is a place of work and not a residence, designed to impress with its ostentation and size.

  这里是总统的办公地而不是居住地，它的设计风格张扬，体量巨大。

• consequently, its enjoyment is appropriate in an atmosphere where all ostentation or suggestion of luxury is banished from one「s eyes and one」s thoughts.

  所以也只有在眼前和心中毫无富丽繁华的景象和念头时，方能真正的享受它。

• but among many dalit voters, unapologetic ostentation is part of her appeal, and the statue scandal may actually play to her advantage.

  不过，在达利特选民中，这种毫无歉意的高调做法正是其魅力所在，而塑像丑闻可能成为她的制胜法宝。

• do you reject his ostentation and glories in this world?

  你们会拒绝他对于这个世界的狂妄和自大吗?。

• in most animal species, darwin noted, females do the choosing—basing their decision on the ornamentation and ostentation males use to attract them.

  达尔文注意到，大多数动物都是由雌性选择雄性——其择偶的标準，是雄性吸引雌性的羽饰及炫耀的姿态。

• those who publicly overstep the mark by their ostentation .

  那些到处卖弄公然逾越社交规范的人。

• two early centres of gastronomy were china (from the 5th century bc) and rome, the latter noted for the excess and ostentation of its banquets.

  最早的两个烹调中心是中国（公元前5世纪起）和罗马，后者以粗犷而奢侈着称。

• pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

  「炫学者」，不合季节卖弄学问的人。

• now klimt has become the flavour of this decade, not least because his work reflects another period of great prosperity in which ostentation and wealth came back in fashion.

  如今，克里姆特已成了这10年里引导业界的代表人，最重要的是因为克里姆特的作品反映出了伟大繁荣的另一个时期——在这个时期里，虚饰与财富重整旗鼓，占据了潮流的顶峰。

• 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。

相似词

vanity虚荣心；空虚；浮华；无价值的东西

pomp(Pomp)人名；(德、匈)蓬普