Fustian
['fʌstɪən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
(n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
(a.) Made of fustian.
(a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.
整理:普雷斯利
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Bombast, nonsense, rant, rhodomontade, inflated style, swelling or pompous phraseology.
整理:尼古拉斯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See BOMBAST]
艾丽萨校對
解釋/意思:
n. a kind of coarse twilled cotton fabric including moleskin velveteen corduroy &c.: a pompous and unnatural style of writing or speaking: bombast: a liquor made of white wine with yolk of eggs lemon spices &c.—adj. made of fustian: bombastic.—v.i. Fust′ianise (Holmes) to write bombastically.—n. Fust′ianist one who writes bombast.
班尼特手打
例句/造句/用法:
- He had small twinkling eyes, and a pock-marked face; wore a fur cap, a dark corduroy jacket, greasy fustian trousers, and an apron. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Rant and fustian! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And for all he said he'd got a confidential situation, he was dressed in fustian just like a working-man. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- And Mrs. Pryor smiled sceptically at the na?ve notion of that rough-handed, rough-headed, fustian-clad clown having fine feelings. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Bess, poor lass, had a little stock under her pillow, ready to slip into my hand, last moment, and Mary is fustian-cutting. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I dunnut knaw that there's mich need, for all a body is dry (thirsty) in a morning, said the fustian gentleman, rising and doing as requested. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The line is worth a hundred pages of fustian. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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