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。 - 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。 - 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。 - They lived meanly and without ostentation.
他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。 - 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。 - Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。 - The statue has beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。 - 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。 - 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。 - Jin is the linguistics research relative deterioration time, when Neo-Confucianism was prosperous and the traditional study atmosphere changed ostentation to coxcombry.
金朝是语言学研究相对衰败的时期，当时理学兴盛，传统经学风气从朴实转变为虚浮。