bravado

noun

1. 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
   1. an act of sheer bravado
      纯属逞能的举动

1. N-UNCOUNT 虚张声势；逞能；逞强
   Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
   1. '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。

1. '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。
2. As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
   我补充一句，他有时表现得过分逞强。
3. 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。
4. I believe this talk is a function more of ego and bravado than really trying to give a founder the best advice for building a sustainable, long term, profitable business.
   我认为这样的说法更多地只会让人感到自负，想逞能，对于打造一家能持久运转、长期盈利的企业而言并不是最好的建议。
5. 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。
6. Real confidence is the ability to switch between bravado and humility without worrying about appearing vulnerable.
   真正的自信是具有在冒险和谦卑之间游刃有余的能力而且从来不会担心自己受伤。
7. 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。
8. The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.
   这个年轻的罪犯，在受到他残暴袭击的受害者出来跟他对质时，他那虚张声势的嚣张气焰不见了。
9. But today, I was not here out of bravado.
   但今天，我今天没出虚张声势。
10. I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.
    我那时喜欢把自己看作是一个大人，但惊恐慌乱就像一条饥肠辘辘的食人鱼吞食猎物一般，渐渐攻破了我的虚张声势。
11. You'll need a little kitchen bravado to try some of these, but you'll also need to be plagued with a healthy weakness for chocolate.
    你需要一个小厨房来随意的尝试这些东西，但是你也可被对巧克力的健康的弱点所烦扰。
12. I have confidence but not much bravado.
    我有自信，却不自大。
13. I do not say this in any spirit of bravado or belligerence.
    我说这句话并不是虚张声势，也不是穷兵黩武。
14. Their behaviour was just sheer bravado.
    他们的行为完全是虚张声势。
15. 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。
16. The three would exchange stories of evading the Imperials, telling tall tales full of bravado and bluster.
    这三个人都喜欢在对方面前吹嘘自己如何躲避帝国的追捕，他们的故事里充满了虚张声势的情节。
17. With a bit of bravado, the old gang hung out their new shingle: the Prediction Company.
    虽然带着那么一点虚张声势的味道，但这伙子旧匪还是把他们的新招牌给挂了出来：预测公司。
18. 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。
19. In the past year as a flight surgeon here, I've become accustomed to the air of bravado, determination, courage, and fear as they head out of fight.
    自从去年作为一名航空军医来到这里，我已经习惯这种他们奔赴战斗的气氛&满是虚张声势、决心、勇气和恐惧的气氛。
20. Bravado would be no more appropriate than fear.
    虚张声势的表现还不如恐惧呢。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. Some mad, defiant act of bravado.
    虚张声势的某种疯狂的、挑衅的行为。
24. His bravado had gone now.
    他那种英雄气概全然不见了。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
    别理会他的威胁&完全是虚张声势。
28. I hope I live long enough to see the end of the bravado crap.
    我希望我能活到看到这些虚张声势的东西终结的那天。
29. 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。

noun

1. a swaggering show of courage

   Synonym:    bluster