The poor fellow went broke because his wife was always trying to keep up with the joneses 那个可怜的家伙破产了，因为他的妻子老爱跟别人比阔气。
Pierpont morgan , perhaps the most flamboyant of the entrepreneurs , operated on a scale of magnificence 皮尔庞特?摩根或许是企业家当中最阔气的。他的经营规模庞大。
He works in the bank , but from the way his wife puts on the dog you would think he owned the bank 他在银行工作，但瞧他太太那副阔气样，你真会以为银行是他开的呢。
I see that they have bought a house in the country . i suppose they ' re trying to keep up with the joneses 我注意到他们在乡村买了所房子。我猜想他们是要与别人比阔气哩。
Progress is more important than foundation . diligence is more important than intelligence . ambition is more important than wealthiness 不比基础比发展，不比聪明比勤奋，不比阔气比志气。
On the train she meets charles drouet , a travelling salesman , whose sophistication and affluence charm her 在火车上，卡丽结识了旅行推销员查尔斯?德鲁艾，他挺阔气，处世老练，对她很有吸引力。
The agony （ 苦恼 ） that america is undergoing is not to be associated with breakdown as much as with the parturition of self - knowledge 美国已不再是欧洲的女儿，也不是她阔气的继母，美国是欧洲的姐妹。
I was strolling along the boulevard beaumarchais , rich by a hundred francs or so which my wife had frantically cabled from america 那天我正沿着博马舍林荫道散步，身上装着我妻子从美国赶忙寄来的一百多法郎，很阔气。
They found that when requests for benevolence were financial , rather than time - consuming , romantically primed men were happy to chip in extravagantly 他们发现，当要求人们做出经济上而不是仅耗费时间的善行时，以浪漫思想为导向的小组里的男性会极为愿意去阔气地捐款。
Quit a few local governments , government offices and organizations compete with one another for lavishness and spend money hand over foot , which arouses strong public resentment “现在，不少地方、部门和单位讲排场、比阔气，花钱大手大脚，奢侈之风盛行，群众反应强烈。
