ostentation的中文翻譯是什麼意思

ostentation

US/ˌɑstenˈteɪʃn/
UK/ˌɒstenˈteɪʃn/

n. 擺闊; 講排場; 炫耀; 賣弄

ostentation柯林斯釋義

N-UNCOUNT炫耀;誇示;賣弄

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...

    消費者摒棄了20世紀80年代鋪張擺闊的陋習。

  • On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.

    大體上說,她生活儉樸,不事張揚。

ostentation英文釋義

Noun

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

        ostentation場景例句

        He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.

        他忽視了當時在社會上流行的賣弄浮誇和一般平民的悲困痛苦.

        Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.

        他們女兒大辦婚事純然是為了炫耀.

        I thought that one is exaggerates; second, wins ostentation.

        我以為一是言過其實, 二是譁眾取寵.

        Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. ( C . Nepos )

        要選擇行動的一生, 而不是炫耀的一生. ( 內波斯 )

        The statue has beauty without ostentation.

        那座雕像有一種非虛飾的美[樸實無華之美].

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        ostentation近義詞

        vanitypomp