bravado
英 [brəˈvɑːdəʊ]
美 [brəˈvɑːdoʊ]
n. 逞能; 逞强; (有时)虚张声势
复数：bravados
Collins.1 / BNC.19061 / COCA.13971
牛津词典
noun
- 逞能；逞强；（有时）虚张声势
a confident way of behaving that is intended to impress people, sometimes as a way of hiding a lack of confidence- an act of sheer bravado
纯属逞能的举动
- an act of sheer bravado
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 虚张声势；逞能；逞强
Bravadois an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.- 'You won't get away with this,' he said with unexpected bravado.
“这事你休想就这么过去，”他以出人意料的强横语气说道。
- 'You won't get away with this,' he said with unexpected bravado.
英英释义
noun
- a swaggering show of courage
双语例句
- But he was the first to face it with such bravado.
可是他却是第一个作得这样有声有色。 - It took Mourinho's wit, pragmatism, bravado and skill to make sense of the numbers and if Chelsea are prepared to take his significance lightly, they did not deserve him in the first place.
穆里尼奥是用自己的智慧，实用主义，自信和技巧来使用这么多钱财的，如果切尔西小看了他的这个本事的话，那他们就不配拥有穆里尼奥了。 - Buying all those shares was just an act of bravado.
买下所有那些股票只是一个虚张声势的举动。 - Some mad, defiant act of bravado.
虚张声势的某种疯狂的、挑衅的行为。 - Their behaviour was just sheer bravado.
他们的行为完全是虚张声势。 - His typical bravado backfired in this case.
他典型的瞎逞强做法这次终于搬起石头砸了自己的脚。 - But today, I was not here out of bravado.
但今天，我今天没出虚张声势。 - Her little bravado made her feel as if she ought to make amends.
她这样闹了一下之后，觉得自己似乎应该作些补偿。 - Anti-American bravado was always a sure way to excite a crowd and strike a pose of national virility.
反美呼声一直是一种激发群众和显示民族气概的可靠方法。 - She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.
她姘识了一个汉子，一个不相干、她不爱的人，那完全是出自心中的愤懑和存心要胡作非为。