bravado
[brə'vɑ:dəu]
n.作威, 虚张声势
例句与用法:
Strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.
努力预防我们的勇气变成一种虚张声势
Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
别理会他的威胁--完全是虚张声势。
词形变化:
名词复数: bravados |
n.
1. 虚张声势
2. 蛮干, 冒险(性)
bravado[brə'vɑ:dəu]n.1.■装作有信心的样子,虚张声势,故作威武,色厉内荏,虚张的勇气,虚势,逞强;虚张声势的举动2.■冒险性;蛮干心理变形n.bravadosbravadoes
bravadobravado[brəˈvɑ:dəu]n.1.■(pl. bravados, bravadoes )[西]虚张声势, 恐吓perform idiotic tricks out of sheer bravado搞一套愚蠢的花招纯属虚张声势
词性变化bravado[brəˈvɑ:dəu]vi.1.■作威; 恐吓, 虚张声势The mob bravadoed a while but never got really violent.暴民们虚张声势了一番, 但始终没有真正地闹起来。
noun
- [mass noun]a bold manner or a show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate
虚张声势,装作气势汹汹的样子
- late 16th cent.: from Spanish bravada, from bravo 'bold' (see brave, -ado)
bravado
■Private Rangel was not a sergeant but he had an air about him a mixture of bravado and charisma that made people think he was.
??兰格尔并非长官,但他有种混合着故作勇敢和领袖魅力的气场使战友们认为他就是长官。
■'I'll be fine on my own,' she said with bravado.
“我一个人没问题。”她逞能地说。
■"Fuck 'em. Count your blessings" was his advice, delivered with rock-star bravado.
“操'时间。伯爵您祝福”是他的意见,提供与摇滚明星虚张声势。
■His pasty yellow complexion did not show well on a person of his years, and his look was a mixture of irresolution, bravado, and very cheap smartness.
一个大约15岁、身材瘦弱矮小的男孩嘴角叼着一支已吸了一半的烟,斜靠在高架人行道旁。
■Some believe the Americans must have somehow drugged him; others that, for all his bravado over the years, he turned out to be a coward.
一些人相信美国人一定对他下了毒;一些人则相信,尽管他多年的虚张声势,最终他却只是个懦。
■“He has been extremely reluctant to do anything that would seem like an act of bravado against Microsoft,” says a person who had an insight into his thinking from his early days at Google.
一位从其在谷歌工作伊始就看透其思路的人士表示:“对于任何看上去像是针对微软的逞能行为,他都极不愿意做。”
■Instead of his usual bravado, he talks to this unknown person with deference.
不像平常那样有恃无恐的样子,盖恩斯与这个人交谈时带有尊重的态度。
■Later in the third the crowd erupted as Zhu Fangyu got his teammate's three-pointer rebound and dunked the ball with bravado.
中国男篮在第二节继续扩大战果,比分最大差距达19分。而塞尔维亚队也不甘示弱,马克万连续投中2个三分球,将比分差距缩小。中国队连续2次请求暂停,重新部署战术。
■How the Sunderland fans who gloried in their side's monumental performance must have wished their team had played with the same spirit, enthusiasm and bravado throughout a torrid campaign.
为他们球队非凡的表现感到自豪的桑德兰球迷一定一直多么希望他们的球队能够在一场激情的战役中打出这种的精神,激情与声势。
■He needs no bravado to mesmerize spectators.
他不需要虚张声势给观众催眠。
■They helped ensure that Cristiano Ronaldo, for all his pre-match bravado, had a quiet game.
他们使的赛前信心满满的小小罗安静下来。
■And their incentive to write an exploit has much more to do with bravado and bragging rights than money.
他们写(漏洞)利用程序的动机虚张声势和自夸胜于金钱。
■Their behaviour was just sheer bravado.
他们的行为完全是虚张声势。
■'' He finds them ''brave,'' and we ourselves may come to see his inventive adaptability, his Dickensian bravado, in the same light.
他发觉他们是“勇敢的”,而我们自己也同样地看到他富有创造性的适应能力和狄更斯式的强装勇敢。
■5.He must distinguish infallibly between the little clod of manure , which sticks to the crocus of necessity, and that which is plastered to it out of bravado.
他必须准确无误地分辩出哪些是出于必要而黏在报春花上面的小小粪土块,哪些是为了虚张声势而有意涂抹在报春花上面的污泥。
■He flourished the weapon in an attempt at bravado
他挥舞武器意在恐吓。
■He behaved aggressively out of bravado.
他摆出一副挑衅的架势,但只是虛张声势。
■What he lacks in courage he compensates for in Bravado
他用虚张声势来弥补自己勇气的匮乏。
■The bravado seemed incongruous with the shyness in his shoulders.
他的故作自信和肩头上露出的羞涩有点不太协调。
■He wears the blue blazer and tan chinos of an academic but has the bravado of a heavyweight who used to box for the marines.
他穿著大学校园里常见的鲜蓝色休閒上衣搭配棕色斜纹裤,却带著某种曾经身为海军陆战队重量级拳击手的蛮劲。
■He was first into the sea, and at once swam out with the bravado of justifying his self-given reputation
他第一个下海,立刻施展本领游了出去,要证明自己夸下的海口。
■His bravado carried him too far and prejudiced his case
他过分的虚张声势给他的诉讼带来了影响。
■There was a challenge in his sparkling merry eyes, and a certain bravado
他那神采飞扬的眼睛有一种挑战的意味,很煞有介事。
■His bravado had gone now
他那种英雄气概全然不见了。
■Bravado is part of greatness, but it doesn't count for diddley squat if you get injured again and again.
伟大的一部分是勇敢,但是如果因此一次次的受伤,这就是鲁莽。
■However, she is still childlike, while all her cunningness is no more than bravado.
但是实质上她还是保有孩子气,她的复杂只是一种虚张声势。
■But the bravado is based partly on the hope that the oil price will rise next year, and the conviction that Venezuela's private banks will be happy to finance this year's deficit, albeit at a price.
但是查韦斯对委内瑞拉的自信部分取决于对明年油价升高的企望和对私人银行将会乐于顶着风险注资今年赤字的确信。
■but the bravado was insincere and unconvincing.
但是这种逞强行为只是虚张声势而已。
■But, no, a flashy guy in a funky haircut beckoned, and the Lakers bit, trading heart for Hollywood, quiet strength for false bravado, a rock for a hard place.
但是,就是没有。取而代之的是一个华而不实留着奇怪(或者说时髦?)发型的家伙,一个喜欢逞能随时会炸掉的家伙。
■1. Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado .
别理会他的威胁--完全是虚张声势.
■Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
别理会他的威胁--完全是虚张声势。
■Strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.
努力预防我们的勇气变成一种虚张声势
■We strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.
努力预防我们的勇气变成一种虚张声势。
■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。
■Poor Catherine was not defiant, and she had no genius for bravado
可怜的凯瑟琳没有反叛的性格,也没有能力做出英勇威武的事来。
■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。
■But it was difficult to keep up this tone of bravado when he was led as a prisoner through his own house-place
可是,当他被当作一个犯人带过自家的大起居室时,要保持这样的豪言壮语就不容易了。
■He dusted off some of that old Shaq bravado after torching the Raptors.
在击败猛龙后他抹去了老沙克的虚张声势。
■" Today, several Nasdaq nosedives later, the bravado is gone.
在纳斯达克股价几次暴跌后的今天,这种虚张声势的场面没有了。
■Amidst much bravado about the potential for world revolution, Marx praised the Opium War for throwing China into chaos.
在许多关于世界革命可能性的虚张声势中,马克思赞美鸦片战争把中国投入大混乱状态。
■The soldiers cloaked their fear with joking and bravado.
士兵们藉开玩笑和夸口来掩饰其恐惧。
■The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society; the bravado of genteel poverty
女儿则作出特别活泼的样子,像很善于应酬似的,这是破落户所特有的一种虚架子。
■Her wild laughter in battle, her bravado and amazing skill at handling Halidarre-they were a little tough to top.
她在战斗中放声狂笑、故意逞能的本事,还有驾驭哈丽达尔的惊险技术,几乎无人能及。
■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。
■Her political savvy is balanced by the go-with-your-gut bravado of her military counterpart, Maj.
她拥有出色的*才能,但在军事上喜欢虚张声势,在军队里面担任少校之职。
■Her political savvy is balanced by the go-with-your-gut bravado of her military counterpart, Maj.John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan), a courageous and gifted pilot.
她拥有出色的政_治才能,但在军事上喜欢虚张声势,在军队里面担任少校之职。
■" The answer was so cool, so rich in bravado, that somehow it took the wind out of his sails.
她说得那么冷静,那么勇气十足,使他不知怎么泄了气。
■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。
■They will talk your ear off for hours if you let them, but as soon as you ask to see their portfolio their bravado scurries away, or they think you want to see their cameras or stocks.
如果你让著他们,他们会讲得你耳朵生茧。但是一旦你想看看他们的作品,他们的声势一下子就消失了,或者他们会以为你想看看他们的器材。
■It crowns the hill, defying the wind and the rain, not out of bravado but so that the man can see the sheep
它顶风冒雨立于山丘之巅,不是为了炫耀自己,而是为了使主人便于照看羊群。