bravado
英语[编辑]
其他形式[编辑]
- bravade (弃用)
词源[编辑]
源自法语 bravade (“自夸”)，源自意大利语 bravata，源自动词bravare (“自夸”)，源自bravo。
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
bravado (可数 和 不可数, 复数 bravados 或 bravadoes)
- 耀武扬威
- The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado.
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- 1891, Rosa Mulholland, The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly，页号 12:
- For a bravado he had the organ taken down and conveyed to his father's house, where he had it put up in the chamber where it now stands. It was also for a bravado that he played on it every day. But, by−and−by, the amount of time which he spent at it daily began to increase rapidly.
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- 1990 Amy Longsdorf, K.T. Oslin: Personality, Wit and Style To Spare", The Morning Call[1]
- Songs like "Hey Bobby", and "Do Ya" drip with innuendo and sexual bravado.
- 2019 5月 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, 出自 The A.V. Club[2]:
- Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
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- 2023 2月 11, Katharine Gammon, “A mountain of trouble? The draw – and danger – of California’s Mount Baldy”, 出自 The Guardian[3], →ISSN:
- The rise of SOS devices – satellite-synched gadgets that send a signal to rescue agencies when activated – give people bravado, Estrada says. “A lot of people carry these SOS devices and they think they can get into any trouble and they can get help,” he says, adding that he has seen more requests for assistance recently.
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- 虚张声势，逞强
- (弃用) 吹嘘的人，大摇大摆的人
动词[编辑]
bravado (第三人称单数简单现在时 bravados, 现在分词 bravadoing, 一般过去时及过去分词 bravadoed)