单词：ostentation
n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
n. pretentious or showy or vulgar display
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ostentation的用法和样例：
例句
- He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.他忽视了当时在社会上流行的卖弄浮夸和一般平民的悲困痛苦。
- The statue had beauty without ostentation.那座雕像有一种非虚饰的美。
- Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.他们女儿大办婚事纯然是为了炫耀.
- He objected on principle to luxury and ostentation.他反对奢侈摆阔。
经典引文
You are come..and have prevented the ostentation of our love.
出自：Anthony Cleopatra,Shakespeare
- vanity自负
- pomp壮丽
- showiness华丽
- pretension声称
- display显示
- flamboyance艳丽
- affectation假装
- brazenness厚颜无耻
- vulgarity粗俗
- pompousness傲慢
- pomposity自大
- puffiness虚胖
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- ostentatiousness夸张
- inflation通货膨胀
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