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
- 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。 - Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。 - 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。 - They lived meanly and without ostentation.
他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。 - More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。 - My distaste for any ostentation.
我对任何炫耀的厌恶。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。