boast
boast 英 [bəʊst] 美 [boʊst]
v. 夸口，自吹自擂 n. 自夸；引以为荣的事物
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- When you boast you are bragging about yourself and your accomplishments (or maybe those of your family), often to the boredom and annoyance of your audience.
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- v. 夸口，自吹自擂
- n. 自夸；引以为荣的事物
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1. I don't want to boast, but I can actually speak six languages.
我并不想吹嘘，但我确实能讲六种语言。
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2. She is always boasting about how wonderful her children are.
她总是夸耀她的孩子多么出色。
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3. He openly boasted of his skill as a burglar.
他公然炫耀他的盗窃手法。
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4. The hotel also boasts two swimming pools and a golf course.
那家酒店还有两个游泳池和一个高尔夫球场。
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5. Despite his boasts that his children were brilliant, neither of them went to college.
尽管他夸赞他的两个孩子聪明，他们却都没念上大学。
- boast (n.) mid-13c., "arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity;" c. 1300, "a brag, boastful speech," from Anglo-French bost "ostentation," probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian baus "proud, bold, daring"), from Proto-Germanic *bausia "to blow up, puff up, swell" (source also of Middle High German bus "swelling," dialectal German baustern "to swell;" Middle Dutch bose, Dutch boos "evil, wicked, angry," Old High German bosi "worthless, slanderous," German böse "evil, bad, angry"), from PIE *bhou-, variant of root *beu-, *bheu-, a root supposed to have formed words associated with swelling (see bull (n.2)).
- boast (v.) mid-14c., "to brag, speak arrogantly," from Anglo-French, from the same source as boast (n.). Meaning "speak with pride" is late 14c. Sense of "glory or exult in possessing" (something) is from 1540s; that of "possess something remarkable or admirable" is from 1690s. Related: Boasted; boasting.
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