ostentation是什么意思？

ostentation

英[ˌɒstenˈteɪʃn] 美[ˌɑstenˈteɪʃn]

• n. 摆阔，讲排场，炫耀，卖弄；

例句

• I don’t like the ostentation of their expensive life-style. 他们生活奢侈,爱摆阔,我不敢恭维。
• Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. “炫学者”,不合季节卖弄学问的人.
• I thought that one is exaggerates; second, wins ostentation. 我以为一是言过其实, 二是哗众取宠.
• Do you reject his ostentation and glories in this world? 你们会拒绝他对于这个世界的狂妄和自大 吗 ?
• Lavishment , ostentation and extravagance, banquet, all these are to fulfill personal selfish desire, power and battle. 浪费, 排场, 宴会都是来满足个人的私欲, 权力和斗争.
• On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation. 大体上说，她生活俭朴，不事张扬。
• Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s... 消费者摒弃了20世纪80年代铺张摆阔的陋习。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  炫耀；夸示；卖弄
  If you describe someone's behaviour as ostentation, you are criticizing them for doing or buying things in order to impress people.
  例句
  Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s... 消费者摒弃了20世纪80年代铺张摆阔的陋习。 On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation. 大体上说，她生活俭朴，不事张扬。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  摆阔,讲排场
  I don’t like the ostentation of their expensive life-style. 他们生活奢侈,爱摆阔,我不敢恭维。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a showy outward display
  2. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
  3. pretentious or showy or vulgar display