braggadocio
braggadocio 英 [ˌbrægəˈdəʊtʃiəʊ] 美 [ˌbrægəˈdoʊtʃioʊ]
n. 自夸，吹牛；吹牛大王
名词复数:braggadocios
- Braggadocio means not only bragging, but bragging about something that’s not true. When your friend boasts of a private yacht, ten personal servants and nightly caviar dinners, that’s braggadocio, unless he happens to live on the French Riviera.
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- n. 自夸，吹牛；吹牛大王
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1. Occupation: braggadocio(Is thia a ……occupation?)
职业：吹牛大王（这……是职业吗？）
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2. In the end, there might be some signs that boorish boys know they’re overreaching — and that may be expressed in the level of their braggadocio.
最后，也许有些迹象表明那些庸俗的男人们知道自己是在做白日梦--这或许能从他们说大话的程度上表现出来。
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3. " In the end, there might be some signs that boorish boys know they’re overreaching — and that may be expressed in the level of their braggadocio.
最后，也许有一些粗俗的男人发现自己过了头的迹象——这表现在他们吹牛的程度中。
- braggadocio (n.) 1590, coined by Spenser as the name of his personification of vainglory ("Faerie Queene," ii.3), from brag, with augmentative ending from Italian words then in vogue in English. In general use by 1594 for "an empty swaggerer;" of the talk of such persons, from 1734.
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