pompous
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源自中古英语 pompous,源自古法语 pompeux,源自晚期拉丁语 pomposus,源自拉丁语 pompa (“壮丽”),源自古希腊语 πομπή (pompḗ, “派遣;庄重的队列;壮观,壮丽”),源自πέμπω (pémpō, “派遣”)。pomposo的同源对似词。
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pompous (比较级 more pompous,最高级 most pompous)
- 自傲的,高傲的,浮夸的,华而不实的
- 1847 January – 1848 July,William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero,London:Bradbury and Evans, […],出版年份1848, OCLC 3174108:, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."
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- “pompous”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- “pompous”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
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