ballyhoo
ballyhoo 英 [ˌbæliˈhu:] 美 [ˈbælihu]
n. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂 vi. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂 vt. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂
进行时:ballyhooing 过去式:ballyhooed 过去分词:ballyhooed 第三人称单数:ballyhoos 名词复数:ballyhoos
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- n. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂
- vi. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂
- vt. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂
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1. Do not be worth ballyhoo in that way successfully.
那样的成功并不值得大肆宣传。
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2. Many candidates ballyhoo their campaigning in the street.
许多候选人在街上为他们的竞选活动大举造势。
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3. They announced, amid much ballyhoo, that they had made a breakthrough.
在一通大吹大擂中，他们宣布自己取得了突破。
- ballyhoo (n.) "publicity, hype," 1908, from circus slang, "a short sample of a sideshow" used to lure customers (1901), which is of unknown origin. The word seems to have been in use in various colloquial senses in the 1890s. To catch ballyhoo is attested from 1895 in sense "be in trouble." There is a village of Ballyhooly in County Cork, Ireland, (the Bally- is a common Irish place-name element meaning "a town, village") but no evident sense connection. In nautical lingo, ballahou or ballahoo (1867, perhaps 1836) was a sailor's contemptuous word for any vessel they disliked (from Spanish balahu "schooner"). As a verb from 1901 (implied in ballyhooer).
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