brag
brag 英 [bræg] 美 [bræɡ]
n. 吹牛，自夸 vi. 吹牛，自夸 vt. 吹牛，吹嘘
进行时:bragging 过去式:bragged 过去分词:bragged 第三人称单数:brags 名词复数:brags
- When you're bragging, you're boasting. If you can't stop talking about your fancy new shoes, that's bragging.
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- n. 吹牛，自夸
- vi. 吹牛，自夸
- vt. 吹牛，吹嘘
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1. Do not brag or bluff.
不要自夸和虚张声势。
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2. The brag is almost always nonsense but there are those around who reckon that wine can deliver decent investment returns.
这种吹嘘通常都是胡说八道，但是周围也有一些人认为葡萄酒能够带来相当的投资回报。
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3. Even I would brag to my Beijing friends that I hadn’t seen foreigners in Guangzhou in weeks.
甚至我也会向我的北京朋友吹嘘自己在广州好几个星期都没见到外国人。
- brag (n.) late 14c., "pomp; arrogance, pride;" see brag (v.); the exact relationship of the forms is uncertain. Meaning "that which is boasted" is from 1530s. As a once-popular poker-like card game, from 1734.
- brag (v.) late 14c., braggen "to make a loud sound," also "to talk boastfully," of obscure origin, perhaps related to bray of a trumpet and imitative, or related to the Middle English adjective brag "ostentatious, proud; spirited, brave" (early 14c.), which probably is from Celtic, and is the source of the surname Bragg (attested from mid-13c.). Perhaps a merger of the two. Other sources suggest Old Norse bragr "the best, the toast (of anything)," also "poetry." Also see braggart for another possibility, but French brague seems too late to be the source. Related: Bragged; bragging.
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