bloviate
vi. 发表冗长演说
v.
发表冗长演说；
英英释义
bloviate[ 'bləuvi,eit ]
v.orate verbosely and windily
权威例句
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Unix® and Linux® System Administration Handbook
bloviate (v.)
1857, American English, a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on blow (v.) on the model of deviate, etc. It seems to have been felt as outdated slang already by late 19c. ("It was a leasure for him to hear the Doctor talk, or, as it was inelegantly expressed in the phrase of the period, 'bloviate' ...." ["Overland Monthly," San Francisco, 1872, describing a scene from 1860]), but it enjoyed a revival early 1920s during the presidency of Warren G. Harding, who wrote a notoriously ornate and incomprehensible prose (e.e. cummings eulogized him as "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors") at which time the word took on its connection with political speech; it faded again thereafter, but, with its derivative, bloviation, it enjoyed a revival in the 2000 U.S. election season that continued through the era of blogging.
1. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
倘使不得已而要对在监狱与白宫里度过四年作一选择的话, 我会说——监狱, 谢谢.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
他在这所州监狱任看守长.
来自辞典例句
3. Next day Paul was sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary and taken off.
第二天,保罗被判三年徒刑,随即解往州监狱.
来自辞典例句
4. While he was in the penitentiary her father died and the family broke up.
他坐牢的时候,她的父亲死了,家庭就拆散了.
来自辞典例句
5. Now , you remember when you went to visit my pop in Lewisburg Penitentiary?
还记得你去路易斯堡监狱探望过我父亲 吗 ?
来自电影对白
[ penitentiary 造句 ]
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