词汇 | bloviate |
释义 | bloviate verb[ I ] USuk /ˈbləʊ.vi.eɪt/ us /ˈbloʊ.vi.eɪt/ to speak a lot in an annoying way as if you are very important: 高谈阔论,夸夸其谈 Most women agree with this, but they don't feel the need to bloviate about it on the internet. 大多数女性都同意这一点,但她们觉得没有必要在网上大肆宣扬。 Informal talking & conversation a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom banter bantering banteringly bants bull session buzz catch catch up with someone chew the fatidiom conversation conversational gambit pass persiflage put the world to rightsidiom speech take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom talk some sense into sbidiom tête-à-tête You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Exaggerating & playing down Examples of bloviatebloviate There's no "correct" way to use "bloviate" -- it was never a real word to begin with. From Los Angeles Times Those stump-speech declamations soon fell victim to radio and the modern fashion for naturalness and informality, taking "bloviate" along with it. From Los Angeles Times Yet still, they walk free and bloviate endlessly as if they have some higher ground. From Huffington Post He over-enunciates fancy words like "opine" and "bloviate" itself, with the implication that there would be something genuinely pretentious about saying them straight. From Los Angeles Times Then, in the late 1990s, "bloviate" began a dramatic comeback, most likely in response to the sheer pervasiveness of political yammer. From Los Angeles Times These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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