ostentation

英式音标：[ˌɒstenˈteɪʃn]

美式音标：[ˌɑstenˈteɪʃn]

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概况：

n. 卖弄；虚饰；虚有其表

词义：

n.

摆阔；讲排场；炫耀；卖弄

英英释义

ostentation[ ,ɔsten'teiʃən ]

n.

a gaudy outward display

同义词：fanfareflash

lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

同义词：ostentatiousnesspompositypompousnesspretentiousnesspuffinesssplashinessinflation

pretentious or showy or vulgar display

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

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。

The statue had beauty without ostentation.
那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美。

Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀.

He objected on principle to luxury and ostentation.
他反对奢侈摆阔。

权威例句

Contrefacon et ostentation

Candyman Can: Film & Ostentation

Learning by ostentation for robotic assembly

Learning by ostentation for robotic assembly

OSTENTATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: CULTURE AND ELITE LEGITIMATION

OSTENTATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: CULTURE AND ELITE LEGITIMATION

The Simple Life: The Case Against Ostentation in Jewish Law

Russia's social upper class: from ostentation to culturedness

Secrecy, ostentation, and the illustration of exotic animals in sixteenth-century Portugal

Ostentation and funk: An integrative model of extended and expanded self theories under the lenses of compensatory consumption

同义词：frounce,frills

同根词：ostentatious,ostentation

英语词源：

ostentation (n.)

mid-15c., from Old French ostentacion (mid-14c.) and directly from Latin ostentationem (nominative ostentatio) "showing, exhibition, vain display," noun of action from past participle stem of ostentare "to display," frequentative of ostendere "to show" (see ostensible).

造句：

1. The statue has beauty without ostentation.

那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美 [朴实无华之美] 。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. they lived meanly and without ostentation.

他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

3. Pretentious elegance;ostentation.

经矫饰的优雅；虚饰

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

4. ostentation and extravagance

排场

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

5. do sth.out of ostentation

为外表好看而做某事

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

6. Free from ostentation or pretension;modest.

朴素的，谦逊的；端庄的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. the vulgar ostentation of the newly rich

暴发户庸俗的摆阔

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

8. Free from showiness or ostentation;unpretentious.

谦虚的不炫耀或卖弄的；不自命不凡的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

9. The statue had beauty without ostentation.

那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

10. Characterized by or given to ostentation;pretentious.

炫耀的以卖弄为特征的或有卖弄倾向的；夸耀的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考