| 词汇 | vaunt |
| 释义 | vaunt verb[ T ] formal usually disapprovinguk /vɔːnt/ us /vɑːnt/ to speak proudly about or praise something, especially in a way that is more than acceptable or reasonable: 吹嘘，自夸，夸耀 The local people like to vaunt the glories of their faded past.当地人喜欢夸耀他们过去的辉煌。 Praising and applauding acclaim acclamation accolade adulate adulation clap compliment encomium enthrone enthronement eulogistic eulogistically hail laurel wreath ode ooh ooh and aahidiom ovation overpraise puff You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Stressing & emphasizing Examples of vauntvaunt The tolerance and freedom from prejudice they vaunted pertained largely to religion, not nationality. Indeed, these claims redoubled their force, now vaunted as neutral descriptions of an indifferent nature by disinterested scientists. So here the much vaunted 'aedicule' device has manifestly failed as an element, as much as a metaphor. In one rhetorical manoeuvre, modernity's much vaunted political institutions are dismissed as being both ineffective and immoral. Earlier doctors at the cusp of the moral management movement would also vaunt the benefits of classification. Her loyalty and self-abnegation are vaunted from the very outset. In typically trenchant fashion he sets forth the serious conceptual and empirical problems afflicting pictorial (including "quasi-pictorial") theories of imagery, showing how even vaunted neuro-imaging evidence fails to support it. Cripps himself was a much vaunted lawyer, with an income of around half a million pounds a year in modern terms by 1930. Might this 'designed subject' be the unintended offspring of the 'constructed subject' so vaunted in postmodern culture? You vaunt the 17 military missions carried out and call for more. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He has now a rather more vaunting ambition and likes to have a part on the wider stage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not vaunting the natural honesty of our own fishermen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These flimsy cardboard accounts vaunt the superiority of empiricism and inductivism over the scientific nemesis of religious bigotry. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The poet muses the obscure in what is near to us, vaunting the clearest bloom among those offered by the sisterhood of the living dead. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This is the vaunt he will make, and may the earth then swallow me. 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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