flaunts

英 [flɔːnts]

美 [flɔːnts]

v.  炫耀; 夸示; 夸耀; 卖弄; (性感地)招摇过市
flaunt的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 炫耀;夸耀;卖弄
  If you say that someoneflauntstheir possessions, abilities, or qualities, you mean that they display them in a very obvious way, especially in order to try to obtain other people's admiration.
  1. They drove around in Rolls-Royces, openly flaunting their wealth...
     他们开着劳斯莱斯到处转悠，公开炫耀他们的财富。
  2. One secret he learned very early on was not to flaunt his success.
     他很早就学到的一个秘诀就是不要夸耀自己的成功。
• VERB 招摇过市;卖弄性感;搔首弄姿
  If you say that someoneis flauntingthemselves, you disapprove of them because they are behaving in a very confident way, or in a way that is intended to attract sexual attention.
  1. She's asking for trouble, flaunting herself like that. Did you see the way Major Winston was looking at her?
     她那么招摇，真是在自找麻烦。看到温斯顿少校看她的样子了吗？
  2. ...tourists flaunting themselves in front of the castle guards in bra and shorts.
     穿着文胸和短裤在城堡卫兵面前招摇卖弄的游客们

双语例句

• But Mr Kim never takes this choice seriously, because Pyongyang knows that the South does not actually want a fight, and so the North flaunts its belligerence.
  但金正日从未严肃对待这一选择，因为朝鲜知道，韩国实际上不愿开战，因此，朝鲜就炫耀其好战行为。
• He is a drug addict who flaunts his addiction and refuses to get treatment.
  他嗜药，并以此为荣甚至拒绝治疗。
• A pet of good fortune: Broadway flaunts its joys
  命运的宠儿：百老汇大街的花花世界
• She never flaunts herself.
  她从不夸耀。
• The main distinction is that civil servant selection system in our country insists in and embodies the basic lines and persists in principle of party ruling cadres whereas western civil servant system flaunts political neutrality and emphasizes separation from parties in civil servant administration.
  重要区别是我国公务员选拔机制坚持和体现了党的基本路线，坚持党管干部原则，而西方文官制度则标榜政治中立，对公务员的管理强调与党派脱钩。
• Sheldon: There's a tribe in Papua New Guinea, where, when a hunter flaunts his success to the rest of the village, they kill him and drive away evil spirits with a drum made of his skin.
  在巴布亚新几内亚有一个部落，当一个猎人向其他部民炫耀他的战利品时，他们宰了他，并敲打他的皮做的鼓，以驱逐他邪恶的灵魂。
• He flaunts his queer style as a savage might flaunt a top-hat retrieved from somebody's dustbin.
  他对自己那种怪异的文体加以夸耀这恰似一个野人从别人的垃圾箱里捡出一顶礼帽时那种洋洋得意的样子。
• With bigger battles and scarier monsters than its predecessor, the new movie flaunts grander visual effects, and, with one notable exception, a dash more individuality than the initial installment.
  比前一部战争规模更大，怪物更吓人，这部新片打造了炫目的视觉效果，然而，一个值得注意的地方是人物个性的刻画不如第一部。
• This is Lin Yutang's most partiality for Su Shi, also is his life unremitting pursue, may regard as Lin Yutang's "DongPo Complex"," DongPo Complex "originates" the early autumn spirit "which Lin Yutang flaunts.
  这正是林语堂最为偏爱苏东坡之所在，也是他自己一生不懈的追求，或可视为林氏的东坡情结，而这东坡情结恰恰源于林氏自己标榜的早秋精神。
• A rooster that flaunts the most basic rules of neighborhood etiquette by crowing every morning before sunrise.
  每天的黎明前，公鸡都会打鸣，仿佛问候邻居早安。