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
- Ostentation of Economy and Ruins of Culture& Comparative Research on Jia Ping'ao's Ruined City and Yexin's Prosperous City
两都赋：经济的浮华与文化的废墟&贾平凹的《废都》与叶辛的《华都》的比较研究 - Women's hats went through periods of astonishing ostentation, the last being the years preceding World War I.
女帽则经历了一些非常夸饰的时期，最后的这种阶段是发生在第一次世界大战前几年。 - The official media announced that he had failed to overcome errors such as abuse of authority and ostentation.
官方媒体宣称这是因为他没能改掉滥用职权和浮夸的错误。 - 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。 - 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。 - Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。 - 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。 - The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。 - 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。