ostentation
n. 摆阔; 讲排场; 炫耀; 卖弄
If you describe someone's behaviour as ostentation, 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。
1. a showy outward display
2. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
3. pretentious or showy or vulgar display
He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.
他忽视了当时在社会上流行的卖弄浮夸和一般平民的悲困痛苦.
Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀.
I thought that one is exaggerates; second, wins ostentation.
我以为一是言过其实, 二是哗众取宠.
Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. ( C . Nepos )
要选择行动的一生, 而不是炫耀的一生. ( 内波斯 )
The statue has beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美].