ostentation

英 [ˌɒstenˈteɪʃn]

美 [ˌɑːstenˈteɪʃn]

n.  (对财富、知识、技能的)炫耀，卖弄，夸示

IELTSGRE

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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

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
  Synonym:ostentatiousnesspompositypompousnesspretentiousnesspuffinesssplashinessinflation
• a gaudy outward display
  Synonym:fanfareflash

双语例句

• However, this kind of separate frequently is misunderstood for merely is actually in one artistic creation method asks the new variation or is wins favor by ostentation, after but has neglected under the modernism ideological trend words construction the social collective esthetic psychology vicissitude.
  然而，这种割裂却常常被误解为仅仅是一种艺术创作方法上的求新变异或者是哗众取宠，而忽略了后现代主义思潮话语建构下社会集体审美心理的变迁。
• A man of culture, he genuinely despises the self-made industrialist and newspaper-king: with a oldest professional salary and a little private income of his own, he regards money-making as vulgar and avoids all ostentation.
  作为有文化修养的人，他毫不掩饰地鄙视白手起家的实业家和报业大王；他只拿中等职业薪水和自己少量私人收入，他视赚钱为庸俗并避免一切炫耀卖弄。
• In fame of learning, the flight will be slow without some feathers of ostentation.
  在学问底名声方面，若没有一些夸耀底羽毛，则这种名声底飞腾是很慢的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.
  他忽视那时代公开的虚饰，就像私人的不幸一样。
• 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。