Swagger
['swægə] or ['swæɡɚ]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
(v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
(v. t.) To bully.
(n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer.
校對:梅雷迪思
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Bluster, bully, vapor, brag, be insolent.
編輯:马里奥
解釋/意思:
v.i. to swing the body in a blustering defiant way: to brag noisily to bully.—n. boastfulness: insolence of manner.—adj. (slang) very fashionable.—n. Swagg′erer.—adj. and n. Swagg′ering.—adv. Swagg′eringly.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The soldiers who like to wear uniforms, who like to strut and swagger and wear red-and-black scarves. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He sat himself down with a threatening swagger, and said: 'Give me a bottle of wine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- While the twain are faithful to their post, Mr. George strides through the streets with a massive kind of swagger and a grave-enough face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He swaggered up a path as if as if the place belonged to him, and we heard his loud, confident peal at the bell. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Armitage and Ramsden smoking, Malone swaggering, your uncle sneering, Mr. Sykes sipping a cordial, and Moore himself in his cold man-of-business vein! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Who would not cut the very best swaggering Stanhope for a Molyneux? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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