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单词 vaunt
释义
vaunt
verb[T]
formalusuallydisapproving
uk
/vɔːnt/us
/vɑːnt/
tospeakproudlyabout orpraisesomething,especiallyin a way that is more thanacceptableorreasonable:
吹嘘，自夸，夸耀
Thelocalpeoplelike to vaunt thegloriesoftheirfadedpast.当地人喜欢夸耀他们过去的辉煌。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising and applauding
  • acclaim
  • acclamation
  • accolade
  • adulate
  • adulation
  • cheer
  • dispatch
  • eulogistic
  • eulogize
  • eulogy
  • exalt
  • extol
  • honour
  • paean
  • panegyric
  • panegyrical
  • panegyrist
  • patsomeoneon the backidiom
  • praise
  • rave
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Stressing & emphasizing
(Definition ofvauntfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvaunt

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The tolerance and freedom from prejudice they vaunted pertained largely to religion, not nationality.
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Indeed, these claims redoubled their force, now vaunted as neutral descriptions of an indifferent nature by disinterested scientists.
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So here the much vaunted 'aedicule' device has manifestly failed as an element, as much as a metaphor.
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In one rhetorical manoeuvre, modernity's much vaunted political institutions are dismissed as being both ineffective and immoral.
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Earlier doctors at the cusp of the moral management movement would alsovauntthe benefits of classification.
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Her loyalty and self-abnegation are vaunted from the very outset.
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In typically trenchant fashion he sets forth the serious conceptual and empirical problems afflicting pictorial (including "quasi-pictorial") theories of imagery, showing how even vaunted neuro-imaging evidence fails to support it.
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Cripps himself was a much vaunted lawyer, with an income of around half a million pounds a year in modern terms by 1930.
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Might this 'designed subject' be the unintended offspring of the 'constructed subject' so vaunted in postmodern culture?
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Youvauntthe 17 military missions carried out and call for more.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
He has now a rather more vaunting ambition and likes to have a part on the wider stage.
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I am not vaunting the natural honesty of our own fishermen.
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These flimsy cardboard accountsvauntthe superiority of empiricism and inductivism over the scientific nemesis of religious bigotry.
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The poet muses the obscure in what is near to us, vaunting the clearest bloom among those offered by the sisterhood of the living dead.
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This is thevaunthe will make, and may the earth then swallow me.
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