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

• 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。
• 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。
• Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
  选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。
• My distaste for any ostentation.
  我对任何炫耀的厌恶。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
  他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。
• The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
  炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。