炫耀

• Caroline felt the value of the true ore, and knew the deception of the flashy dross .
  卡罗琳辨别出了真金的价值，知道那种炫耀的铁渣只有迷惑人的外表。
• If one wishes to be a prig or a puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them .
  一个人要是愿意当道学先生或清教徒，当然可以炫耀自己的伦理观点。
• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins .
  她们在旁边人面前炫耀自己的伉俪之乐，仿佛这是最诱人的罪过。
• Strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action .
  大力士喜欢炫耀自己的膂力，酷嗜锻炼肌肉之类的运动。
• He did not want to claim social superiority, he would not claim intrinsic personal superiority .
  他不想炫耀优越的社会地位，他也不会炫耀他个人出众的内在力量。
• They sat in germaine rocher's salon watching the languid mannequins preen and simper .
  她们正坐在吉米罗切的美术展览馆里，看着那些疲乏的服装模特炫耀服装和假笑。
• They walked grandly through the lobby, blatantly arm in arm, pretending they were not defeated .
  他们大大方方地穿过门厅，故意炫耀地挎着胳膊，假装他们没有被打败。
• Contacts conducted at arm's length for five years should suddenly turn into such an ostentatious embrace .
  五年来保持的不过分亲密的接触现在突然变成如此公开炫耀的拥抱。
• He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly .
  他学会了一套用手灵巧地摆弄烟嘴的动作，一有机会就要拿它炫耀一番。
• I always think music criticism and program notes are written by people trying to prove how clever they are .
  我总认为，音乐批评和节目说明是那些企图炫耀自己聪明的人写的。