ostentation

noun

1. （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

1. N-UNCOUNT 炫耀；夸示；卖弄
   If you describe someone's behaviour as ostentation, 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。

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。
3. Socrates, Aristotle, Galen, were men full of ostentation.
   苏格拉底、亚里士多德、盖伦，都是富于夸耀性的人。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.
   炫耀矫饰的品质或状态；炫耀。
7. Oh, Tiger Woods, John Terry, Ashley Cole, Mark Owen ( and the rest), you got hitched with all the ostentation of wealth, only to be left with skinny, sad wives and a reputation in tatters.
   你看，老虎伍兹，约翰特里，阿什利科尔，马克欧文，他们都与那些有财富排场的女人结婚，但最后却让这些可怜瘦弱的妻子们独守空房，而他们自己也名誉扫地。
8. Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
   选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。
9. The statue has beauty without ostentation.
   那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美[朴实无华之美]。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
    他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀。
17. They lived meanly and without ostentation.
    他们生活很节俭，一点也不摆阔。
18. More than two telephones is pure ostentation.
    装两部以上的电话纯粹是为了摆阀。
19. Women's hats went through periods of astonishing ostentation, the last being the years preceding World War I.
    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。
20. 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。
21. My distaste for any ostentation.
    我对任何炫耀的厌恶。
22. A man of culture, he genuinely despises the self-made industrialist and newspaper-king: with a oldest professional salary and a little private income of his own, he regards money-making as vulgar and avoids all ostentation.
    作为有文化修养的人，他毫不掩饰地鄙视白手起家的实业家和报业大王；他只拿中等职业薪水和自己少量私人收入，他视赚钱为庸俗并避免一切炫耀卖弄。
23. Maxim restaurant While ostentation, but it is not absolutely can not afford anything.
    马克西姆餐厅的排场虽然大，但也并非是绝对消费不起的。
24. 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
25. However, this kind of separate frequently is misunderstood for merely is actually in one artistic creation method asks the new variation or is wins favor by ostentation, after but has neglected under the modernism ideological trend words construction the social collective esthetic psychology vicissitude.
    然而，这种割裂却常常被误解为仅仅是一种艺术创作方法上的求新变异或者是哗众取宠，而忽略了后现代主义思潮话语建构下社会集体审美心理的变迁。
26. Received by the impact of commercial society, the worship of the ordinary populace gradually desalinated to the truth and the hero by the obvious mammonism and utilitarianism, display one kind of pursue of fabrication and ostentation.
    受到商业社会的冲击，普通大众对真理、对英雄的崇拜逐渐被明显的拜金主义和功利主义所淡化，表现出一种追求虚妄、浮华的心理状态。
27. 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。

noun

1. pretentious or showy or vulgar display

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

   Synonym:    ostentatiousnesspompositypompousnesspretentiousnesspuffinesssplashinessinflation

3. a gaudy outward display

   Synonym:    fanfareflash