Ostentation
[,ɒsten'teɪʃ(ə)n] or ['ɑstɛn'teʃən]
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:梅齐--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Display, show, parade, flourish, dash, pomposity, pompousness, pageantry, high pretension.
阿加莎手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Show, parade, display, flourish, pomp, vaunting, boasting
ANT:Reserve, retirement, modesty, concealment, unobtrusiveness, quiet, diffidence
手打:苏珊
例句/造句/用法:
- And any one who knows Edison will bear testimony to his utter absence of ostentation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Every body tells that, but with as little ostentation as I may, I doubt the word of every he who tells it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Ostentation, Hackbutt? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The Church patronised it, even with ostentation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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