Ostentation

[,ɒsten'teɪʃ(ə)n] or ['ɑstɛn'teʃən]

(noun.) pretentious or showy or vulgar display.

(noun.) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

(noun.) a gaudy outward display.

编辑:梅齐--From WordNet

(n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

(n.) A show or spectacle.

整理:萨莎

n. Display, show, parade, flourish, dash, pomposity, pompousness, pageantry, high pretension.

阿加莎手打

SYN:Show, parade, display, flourish, pomp, vaunting, boasting

ANT:Reserve, retirement, modesty, concealment, unobtrusiveness, quiet, diffidence

手打:苏珊

And any one who knows Edison will bear testimony to his utter absence of ostentation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
Every body tells that, but with as little ostentation as I may, I doubt the word of every he who tells it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
Ostentation, Hackbutt? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
The Church patronised it, even with ostentation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

录入:凯思琳