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

• Reports of his tax policies suggest that Shah Jahan may have appropriated as much as 40 per cent of what we now call gross domestic product to support a lifestyle of exceptional ostentation and self-indulgence.
  有关沙贾汗（shahjahan）税收政策的报告似乎显示，他可能挪用了40%我们现在所称的“国内生产总值”，以支持自己穷奢极侈的生活方式。
• 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。
• My distaste for any ostentation.
  我对任何炫耀的厌恶。
• Exhibiting no pretensions, boastfulness, or ostentation; modest.
  不装腔作势的不装腔作势的，不夸耀的；不铺张招摇的；谦逊。
• In fame of learning, the flight will be slow without some feathers of ostentation.
  在学问底名声方面，若没有一些夸耀底羽毛，则这种名声底飞腾是很慢的。
• 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。
• Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
  他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。
• More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
  装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。
• 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。
• 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。