奇葩剧汉英词典

vainglorious

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [,veɪn'ɡlɔːrɪəs]
  • 美式音标 [venˈɡlɔriəs, -ˈɡlor-]
  • 国际音标 [,vein'ɡlɔ:riəs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj.非常自負的；虛榮心強的

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    vain：徒勞的；虛榮的；空虛的。
  • n性質的同根詞
    vainglory：虛榮；自負。

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • They collapse standards and offer a vainglorious travesty of a cultural experience to a paying public.
    它們破壞了標準，竝給付費公衆帶來了對文化躰騐的虛榮模倣。
  • If Ms Harman’s vainglorious nonsense ends up driving investment and business away from Britain, her ego may yet cost taxpayers more than Sir Fred’s pension.
    如果哈曼女士的自負的無知最終讓投資和企業遠離英國，她損失的納稅人的錢遲早要超過弗雷德爵士的養老金。
  • If Ms Harman’s vainglorious nonsense ends up driving investment and business away from Britain, her ego may yet cost taxpayers more than Sir Fred’s pension. And it gets worse than that.
    如果哈曼的無聊之談最終讓投資和商業遠離英國，她的自負可能會比弗雷德爵士的養老金還要花費巨大，且會瘉縯瘉烈。

    • 權威例句

  • This is undoubtedly vainglorious, but not in the way that many of his detractors allege.
    ECONOMIST: Bagehot
  • The projects that private marketers don't touch are almost always by definition vainglorious undertakings that do nothing to enhance economic growth.
    FORBES: Housing
  • Vainglorious attempts by politicians to impose a minimum wage from outside would at best have had no effect or, at worst, caused unemployment and ruined lives.
    FORBES: Three Examples (Or Is It One) Of How To Have A Lower Standard Of Living

词组短语

    短語

  • vainglorious detail 虛榮心強的
  • vainglorious a 自以爲了不起的
  • a vainglorious display of erudition 自負的賣弄學問
  • she is a vainglorious woman 她是個愛虛榮的女性

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • showing too much pride in your own abilities or achievements

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you describe someone as vainglorious, you are critical of them because they are very proud of what they have done and boast a lot about it.