ostentation的意思是:n.卖弄;虚饰;炫耀;摆阔;讲排场。ostentation【近义词】vanity自负。ostentation的读音是英[ˌɒsten'teɪʃn];美[ˌɑːsten'teɪʃn]。
一、详尽释义点此查看ostentation的详细内容
二、英英释义
三、词典解释
1.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.
e.g. Consumers are abandoning the excess andostentation of the 1980s...
消费者摒弃了20世纪80年代铺张摆阔的陋习。
e.g. On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack ofostentation.
大体上说,她生活俭朴,不事张扬。
四、例句
He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.
他忽视了当时在社会上流行的卖弄浮夸和一般平民的悲困痛苦。
The statue had beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美。
Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀.
He objected on principle to luxury and ostentation.
他反对奢侈摆阔。
五、经典引文
You are come..and have prevented the ostentation of our love.
出自:Anthony Cleopatra,Shakespeareostentation的相关近义词
vanity、pomp、showiness、pretension、display、flamboyance、affectation、brazenness、vulgarity、pompousness、pomposity、puffiness、splashiness、ostentatiousness、inflation、pretentiousness、flash、fanfare
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