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

• More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
  装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
  他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。
• He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.
  他忽视那时代公开的虚饰，就像私人的不幸一样。