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
- Reports of his tax policies suggest that Shah Jahan may have appropriated as much as 40 per cent of what we now call gross domestic product to support a lifestyle of exceptional ostentation and self-indulgence.
有关沙贾汗（shahjahan）税收政策的报告似乎显示，他可能挪用了40%我们现在所称的“国内生产总值”，以支持自己穷奢极侈的生活方式。 - 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。 - 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。 - Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。 - Lavishment, ostentation and extravagance, banquet, all these are to fulfill personal selfish desire, power and battle.
浪费，排场，宴会都是来满足个人的私欲，权力和斗争。 - The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。 - 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。 - Collectors have become less concerned with ostentation than with authenticity.
收藏家也变得更加关注可靠性而不是排场。 - 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。 - My distaste for any ostentation.
我对任何炫耀的厌恶。