ostentation

[.ɔsten'teiʃən]

n.卖弄, 虚饰, 炫耀, <古>摆阔, 讲排场

例句与用法：

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

n.

虚饰; 卖弄

ostentation

词义辨析：

同义参见:

vanity

pomp

ostentation[,ɔsten'teiʃən]n.1.■夸示，卖弄，炫耀；风头主义2.■[古语]展现；征兆；预示；预兆

1. [mass noun]pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, designed to impress or attract notice
   （尤指对财富的）炫耀，卖弄
   

1. late Middle English: via Old French from Latin ostentatio(n-), from the verb ostentare, frequentative of ostendere 'stretch out to view'
   

ostentation

名词 ostentation:

a gaudy outward display

同义词：fanfare, flash

lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

同义词：ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation

pretentious or showy or vulgar display

ostentation

■J. Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan, perhaps the most flamboyant of the entrepreneurs, operated on a scale of magnificence. He displayed ostentation and grandeur in his private and business life.

J - P - 摩根也许是企业家中最为奢华的人，办事极其铺张，无论在个人生活或公务活动中都大摆阔气。

■Exaggeration or ostentation of any kind is frowned on.

一 切 浮 夸 和 矫 饰 的 衣 ， 都 是 叫 人 皱 眉 头 的 。

■a Pharisee may put pieces of gold into the char-ity-plate out of mere hypocrisy and ostentation，but the bad man's gold feeds the widow and the fa-therless as well as the good man's.

一个法利赛人可能出于伪善和炫耀的目的而在施舍盘里放上几块金子，但是坏人的金子和好人的金子一样都能养活孤儿寡妇。

■A pair of artists, image, singing, performing, or even the ostentation and extravagance, he is the soul of business efforts.

一个艺人对工作、形象、歌艺、表演，甚至是排场的要求，就是他要努力经营的灵魂。

■then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.

上拼写课时，一连串最简单的字弄得他“翻了船”，结果成绩在全班垫了底，他只好把戴在身上、风光了好几个月的那枚奖章退给了老师。

■I don't envy ostentation, not seek after vogue. Quietly, I am pregnant with philosophical thought and meet tests in storm.

不羡慕浮华，不追求时髦。寂静中孕育哲思，风雨里迎接考验。

■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

■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

■do sth. out of ostentation

为外表好看而做某事

■Their daughter' s wedding reception was sheer ostentation.

他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀.

■Their daughter's weddingreception was sheer ostentation.

他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。

■They even adopted the form of legal constraints that extravagance and waste, and stresses the bad acts of ostentation .

他们甚至通过法律的形式来制约那些奢侈浪费、好讲排场的恶劣行径。

■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。

■1、they lived meanly and without ostentation.

他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。

■He possessed all these qualities, moreover, in the proper mean and without ostentation, and, in fine, was praiseworthy in every way and, in the minds of all good men, well deserving of comparison with Numa Pompilius.

他保有所有这些品性，而且是出于固有，并无虚饰，以及，他的美德在各个方面都值得称赞，而在所有优秀的人们看来，堪与努马·蓬皮利乌斯相比。

■He objected on principle to luxury and ostentation.

他反对奢侈摆阔。

■which he had worn with ostentation for months.

他可是戴在身上、风光了好几个月。

■He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.

他忽视了当时在社会上流行的卖弄浮夸和一般平民的悲困痛苦。

■and he could express approbation without noisy display,and he possessed much knowledge without ostentation.

他能自然地赞美别人，但又不过于夸张，他知识渊博却从不卖弄。

■Chuanqi's ostentation

传奇排场

■Ostentation and revelry were ceased, for the sake of separation.

停止浮华与狂欢，因为分开。

■Farmers and the general public, eating stresses nutrition, wearing high-end speakers, home ostentation.

农民与市民一样，吃讲营养，穿讲高档，居室排场。

■Is sure not line of gab, wins favor by ostentation, is introducing oneself do not outsmart oneself.

切勿夸夸其谈，哗众取宠，在自我介绍不要弄巧成拙。

■To be candid without ostentation or design-to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad belongs to you alone.

可是--坦白得不加任何炫耀，不带一点企图，承认别人的优点，而且把人家的长处多夸奖几分，却绝口不提别人的短处，这可只有你做得到。

■The ostentation in time of economic crisis, the investment abroad of profits made in Russia and a move to undermine Mr.Luzhkov, a one-time rival of Mr.

在经济危机之际大肆招摇、拿俄国赚的钱到国外投资、藉此打击曾是普亭政敌的鲁兹科夫，这些可能原因，俄国媒体都猜过。

■Most people can't spend the four or five hours a day in the gym that you need to have a perfect body, and starving yourself in a country where food is plentiful is a kind of ostentation.

大多数人不可能每天在健身房花上四五个小时，练就完美身材，在食品丰富的国家让自己挨饿不过是出风头。

■She had a small property, which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community

她有一份小小的财产，已经大吹大擂地捐给一个宗教团体了。

■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。

■And turn aside without ostentation to aid the weak;

并且真诚地帮助弱者而非基于炫耀；

■The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

急于宣告她的善行的慈悲，不再是慈悲，而只是骄傲与夸示。

■1.Idleness is a silent and peaceful quality, that neither raises envy by ostentation, nor hatred by opposition; and therefore nobody is busy to censure or detest it.

懒散不显山不露水，既不会由于炫耀而招致嫉妒，也不会因为对抗而遭人憎恨。正因为如此，没有人指责它，憎恶它。

■Idleness is a silent and peaceful quality, that neither raises envy by ostentation, nor hatred by opposition;and therefore nobody is busy to censure or detect it.

懒散具有静默安详的特性，不会因为卖弄而惹人嫉妒，也不会因为反对什么而招致怨恨，所以没有人忙于非难或盘查它。

■I thought that one is exaggerates;second, wins favor by ostentation.

我以为一是言过其实，二是哗众取宠。

■Never could I box up and house and localize under that lowly roof the Magnificence and Ostentation of which I was capable

我决不能把我所能企及的豪华和排场束缚、禁锢、局限在这么卑微的屋顶之下。

■I undertake critical point out mistakes so that they can be corrected to her, but she says I am again in ostentation " knowledge " .

我对她进行批评指正,可她又说我是在卖弄“学问”。

■I am an autumnal tree which defends the small territory quietly. I have never admired ostentation of moment as the best beautiful is in my heart instead of distance.

我是一棵秋天的树，安安静静守着小小疆土，眼前的繁华我从不羡慕，因为最美的在心不在远处。

■The house was spacious but without any trace of ostentation.

房子很宽敞，但绝无半点炫耀的痕迹。

■The vulgar ostentation of the newly rich

暴发户庸俗的摆阔

■"The cloth cap with visor was for decades the international standard for workingmen and Boys. Women's hats went through periods of astonishing ostentation, the last Being the years preceding World War I."

有帽沿的布帽在数十年间成为工人和男孩的国际标准帽样式。女帽则经历了一些非常夸饰的时期,最后的这种阶段是发生在第一次世界大战前几年。

■Free from ostentation or pretension; modest.

朴素的，谦逊的；端庄的

■Emperor Ming's Prohibition of Ostentation

析魏明帝禁浮华

■English: Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.

每日名言（07.07.20）要选择行动的一生,而不是炫耀的一生。

■has not won favor by ostentation the motion,

没有哗众取宠的行动

■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。

■Ostentation, pride, splendor, and display ruled, but not the fear of the Lord.

浮华，骄傲，辉煌，展示统治，但不是害怕上帝。

■Conspicuous Consumption Lite: Keeping the revs up and the ostentation down.

炫耀性消费建兴：保持转速和下跌的排场。

■Characterized by or given to ostentation; pretentious.

炫耀的以卖弄为特征的或有卖弄倾向的；夸耀的

■The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.

炫耀矫饰的品质或状态;炫耀。

■The quality or state of being pretentious;ostentation.

炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀

■ostentation:Pretentious display meant to impress others;boastful showiness.

炫耀：试图打动别人的、夸耀的展示；