词汇 | swanking |
释义 | swanking present participle ofswank swank verb[ I ] UKinformaldisapprovinguk /swæŋk/ us /swæŋk/ to behave or speak too confidently because you think that you are very important, in order to attract other people's attention and admiration: 出风头,夸耀,炫耀,卖弄 Just because you won, there's no need to swank.没必要因为赢了就四处夸耀。 People around here don't swank about their money.这里的人不会炫耀自己的钱财。 Attention-seeking, distracting and showing off check out chichi dressed dressed (up) to the ninesidiom exhibitionistic exhibitionistically flamboyance flamboyant flaunt gimmick gimmickry hotdog negging ostentation ostentatiously peacock peacocking posture razzle-dazzle showboating Examples of swankingswanking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. You cannot make tens of thousands out of building houses without having "swanking" somewhere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The men follow certain set values of swanking, such as physical cleanliness, sobriety and above all self-respect. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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