ostentation

英 [ˌɒstenˈteɪʃn]

美 [ˌɑːstenˈteɪʃn]

n.  (对财富、知识、技能的)炫耀，卖弄，夸示

IELTSGRE

BNC.32895 / COCA.30755

牛津词典

noun

• （对财富、知识、技能的）炫耀，卖弄，夸示
  an exaggerated display of wealth, knowledge or skill that is made in order to impress people

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 炫耀；夸示；卖弄
  If you describe someone's behaviour asostentation, you are criticizing them for doing or buying things in order to impress people.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• pretentious or showy or vulgar display
• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
  Synonym:ostentatiousnesspompositypompousnesspretentiousnesspuffinesssplashinessinflation
• a gaudy outward display
  Synonym:fanfareflash

双语例句

• Collectors have become less concerned with ostentation than with authenticity.
  收藏家也变得更加关注可靠性而不是排场。
• In6, the formation of the team, not one-sided pursuit of ostentation, establish long team, lead to the harmonious and unified, easy to cause the accident.
  在组建车队时，不要片面地追求排场，组建过长车队，导致无法协调统一，容易造成事故。
• Ostentation of Economy and Ruins of Culture& Comparative Research on Jia Ping'ao's Ruined City and Yexin's Prosperous City
  两都赋：经济的浮华与文化的废墟&贾平凹的《废都》与叶辛的《华都》的比较研究
• The official media announced that he had failed to overcome errors such as abuse of authority and ostentation.
  官方媒体宣称这是因为他没能改掉滥用职权和浮夸的错误。
• A man of culture, he genuinely despises the self-made industrialist and newspaper-king: with a oldest professional salary and a little private income of his own, he regards money-making as vulgar and avoids all ostentation.
  作为有文化修养的人，他毫不掩饰地鄙视白手起家的实业家和报业大王；他只拿中等职业薪水和自己少量私人收入，他视赚钱为庸俗并避免一切炫耀卖弄。
• Socrates, Aristotle, Galen, were men full of ostentation.
  苏格拉底、亚里士多德、盖伦，都是富于夸耀性的人。
• 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。
• Jin is the linguistics research relative deterioration time, when Neo-Confucianism was prosperous and the traditional study atmosphere changed ostentation to coxcombry.
  金朝是语言学研究相对衰败的时期，当时理学兴盛，传统经学风气从朴实转变为虚浮。
• 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。
• My distaste for any ostentation.
  我对任何炫耀的厌恶。