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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Maxim restaurant While ostentation, but it is not absolutely can not afford anything.
马克西姆餐厅的排场虽然大，但也并非是绝对消费不起的。 - 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。 - The statue has beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。 - Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。 - 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。