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

• The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
  炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。
• More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
  装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。
• They lived meanly and without ostentation.
  他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。
• Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
  他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。