bombast

[美]/ˈbɒmbæst/
[英]/ˈbɑːmbæst/
词频: 极高

释义

n. 夸大的言辞
adj. 夸大的
词形变化
复数bombasts

短语搭配

bombastic style

浮夸的风格

例句

cut through the bombast

切入夸大之辞

see through the bombast

看穿夸大之辞

原声例句

Not everyone was convinced by such bombast.

并非所有人都信服此类高调言论。

来源: Past exam questions of new reading types in the postgraduate entrance examination.

Colleagues soon found Kennedy to be an odd combination of bombast and self-effacement.

同事们很快便发现,肯尼迪是一个夸夸其谈和自谦两者兼具的奇葩。

来源: Time

For a while, in Cairo and Beirut, he worked for Radio Palestine, but the bombast and sloganeering of politics repelled him.

他曾在开罗和贝鲁特为巴勒斯坦广播电台工作过一段时间,但他对政治的夸夸其谈和口号感到厌恶。

来源: The Economist (Summary)

It's not bombast that I cured her broken bosom bone with borax.

这不是夸大的言辞,我曾用硼砂治疗过她断了的胸骨。

来源: Pan Pan

After all this sort of bombast, you know, I can do it better, the Americans aren't helping us.

在所有这些夸张之后, 你知道,我可以做得更好, 美国人没有帮助我们。

来源: Financial Times Podcast

" All the bombast which our opponent has stolen from Bossuet and lavished upon you, " said the advocate, " has done you good" .

“我们的对手从 Bossuet 那里窃取并慷慨地夸耀你,”辩护人说,“对你有好处”。

来源: The Red and the Black (Part Four)

" There are a lot of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software, " Dobbs said, his usual bombast strangely absent.

“关于选举的公正性、邮寄投票的不规范性、选举投票机和投票软件的不规范性,人们有很多意见,”道布斯说道,他一贯的夸夸其谈居然消失不见了。

来源: New York Times

Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.

和他一起生活,有时是很愉快的,虽然他有个怪毛病,不许别人在他面前扯谎、夸夸其谈,或装模作样。

来源: Gone with the Wind

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