vaunted
adj. 被自我吹嘘的
v. <文>吹嘘,自夸( vaunt的过去式和过去分词 ); 吹牛,自吹,夸耀
If you describe something as vaunted or much vaunted, you mean that people praise it more than it deserves.
Its vaunted security procedures hadn't worked...
它那套被大肆吹嘘的安保程序并没有发挥作用。
Simpson's much vaunted discoveries are in fact commonplace in modern sociology.
辛普森的那些被大肆称赞的发现在现代社会学中实际上都不足为奇。
His plays were being well enough received to render the most vaunted dramatists uneasy.
他的剧本受到人们欢迎,足以使最自负的剧作家也为之不安.
His most vaunted exploits were exposed as largely fictitious.
他最自豪的功绩,戳穿后才知大抵都是虚构的.
That's something that not even the vaunted U.S. medical research establishment can do by itself.
这项工作即使是自负的美国医学研究机构也是无法独立完成的.
They vaunted into the new boy.
她们挖苦起那个新来的男孩.
Your vaunted President is still a kehee a boy who has not undergone the circumcision ritual.
我特别地说,“可你们那位爱吹嘘的大总统还是个小子--一个还没有经历过割礼仪式的小宝宝呢.”