名 （姓氏） a surname；

[例句] 拿1夸脱牛奶或一条面包。 Pick up a quart of milk or a loaf of bread.

[例句] 桶里还剩下一夸脱牛奶. There is a quart of milk left in the pail.

praise，commend，extol，compliment，cry up ；

[例句] 那男人夸奖这姑娘长得漂亮时,她羞得脸红了. The girl flushed from modesty when the man praised her appearance.

[例句] 她拐弯抹角地想受到夸奖. She's angling for a compliments.

[物] quark ；

[例句] 夸克和轻子的这些个同种类,从技术上看是有特色的. The different kinds of quarks or leptons are known technically as flavors.

[例句] 照此鉴定, 可以识别出夸克的量子数. Using this identification, we read off the quantum numbers of the quarks.

exaggerate，overstate，magnify，aggrandize，microscope ；

[例句] 在后来的新闻发布会上，他说不应夸大分歧。 At a later news conference, he said differences should not be dramatized.

[例句] 正如很多有关他的故事一样，这个故事也有点夸大。 Like many stories about him, it smacks of exaggeration.

be boastful，exaggerate，fuddy-duddy，dog，coxcombry ；

[例句] 我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。 We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.

[例句] 她抨击同事“言辞浮夸做作”。 She attacked her colleagues for indulging in "grandiose and grandiloquent language".

brag about，show off，flaunt，boast of，air ；

[例句] 这个电视节目有些伪善和夸耀的嫌疑。 The TV show had the whiff of hypocrisy and pomposity.

[例句] 他无法让自己喜欢爱夸耀的 、 虚荣的阿拉贝拉. He could not bring himself to like the boastful, vain Arabella.

exaggerate，overstate，overstate，pile it on；

[例句] 在这些方面和其他几个方面都存在许多捏造与夸张之处。 In these and several other respects, there are many inventions and exaggerations.

[例句] 她夸张地鞠了个躬。“阿纳斯塔西娅·克鲁布尼克，随时为您效劳，”她说。 She bowed dramatically. "Anastasia Krupnik, at your service," she said.

sing one's own praises，crack oneself up，boast，braggadocio，jactation ；

[例句] 我并非自夸，我的厨艺的确高超。 I'm a good cook, though I say it myself.

[例句] 他的话不仅仅是虚张声势的自夸。 His statement isn't merely an idle boast.

boast，brag，talk big，gasconade ；

[例句] 玛丽夸口说她比杰克跑得快. Mary bragged that she could run faster than Jack.

[例句] 他夸口说自己是权威. He boasts that he is an authority.

speak highly of，commend，praise，acclaim ；

[例句] 有时候她过分夸赞他。 She had on occasions praised him extravagantly.

[例句] 那位歌唱家受到了夸赞,以致红了起来. The singer has been built up into a great success.

boast of，show off，blazon，display，panache ；

[例句] 真正的学者不会夸示他的知识. A genuine scholar does not make a parade of his knowledge.

[例句] 小红经常向别人夸示自己有多贤惠. Xiaohong always boasts that she is genial and prudent.

exaggerative，bombastic，boastful ；

[例句] 她讨厌公关工作中的虚夸恭维。 She hated the flummery of public relations.

[例句] 如果你说话虚夸, 人们便不会相信你了. If you exaggerate, people will no longer believe you.

exaggerated，high-flown，[医] grandiose，bombastic，blusterous ；

[例句] 灾害预警有被夸大的可能。 Warnings of disaster may be overblown.

[例句] 人们不会相信老是夸大的人. People will not believe a man who always lays on the colours.

quart （等于 69. 355 立方英寸） ；

[例句] 拿1夸脱牛奶或一条面包。 Pick up a quart of milk or a loaf of bread.

[例句] 桶里还剩下一夸脱牛奶. There is a quart of milk left in the pail.

[书] （虚夸不实） exaggerative，boastful ；

[例句] 现在的有些电视剧,情节夸诞,缺乏生活中的真实性. Some TV plays are full of exaggeration and lack trueness to life.

exaggerated，high-flown，grandiloquent，inflated，high-sounding ；

[例句] 她往往以夸张的姿势结束舞蹈。 She tended to finish dancing with a flourish.

[例句] 这种工作需要具备无限的精力和夸张的想象力。 The work demanded boundless energy and theatrical imagination.

pretentious ；

[例句] 这个电视节目有些伪善和夸耀的嫌疑。 The TV show had the whiff of hypocrisy and pomposity.

[例句] 他无法让自己喜欢爱夸耀的 、 虚荣的阿拉贝拉. He could not bring himself to like the boastful, vain Arabella.

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[例句] 在其全盛时期，该制片公司夸口说，他们旗下的明星比天上的星星还要多。 In its heyday, the studio's boast was that it had more stars than there are in heaven.

[例句] 帕森斯夸口说,单是胜利大厦,挂出的旗子就有四百米那么长. Parsons boasted that Victory Mansions alone would display four hundred metres of bunting.

large，tall ；

exaggerator ；