Pompous
['pɒmpəs] or ['pɑmpəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
(a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Showy, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, majestic, magnificent, superb, splendid, august, magisterial.[2]. Swelling, inflated, bombastic, turgid, pretentious, stilted, boastful, grandiloquent, high-flowing, high-sounding, HIGHFALUTIN, SPREAD-EAGLE.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, showy, sumptuous, ostentatious, stately,lofty, grand, bombastic, turgid, stiff, Inflated, pretentious, coxcombical,assuming
ANT:Unpretending, unobtrusive, modest, unassuming, plain-mannered, humble-minded
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例句/造句/用法:
- He was pompous, but with such a cook what would one not swallow? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- These people and their like gave the pompous Russell Square merchant pompous dinners back again. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Lots of money--old girl--pompous doctor--not a bad idea--good fun,' were the intelligible sentences which issued from his lips. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- You are getting very pompous in the early morning, he told himself. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- George carried the pompous supplies to his mother and the shattered old widower whom it was now the main business of her life to tend and comfort. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A pompous and unintelligent classical pretentiousness dominated them, and they dominated the schools of the middle and upper classes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was thinking of his own plans, and lost in pompous admiration of his own irresistible powers of pleasing. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You're getting awfully pompous. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The van der Luydens, said Archer, feeling himself pompous as he spoke, are the most powerful influence in New York society. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- For his friends and cronies, he had a pompous old schoolmaster, who flattered him, and a toady, his senior, whom he could thrash. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- She is stupid and pompous, like all your mother's family, whom I never could endure. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- How dare the pompous priest abuse his flock! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They held many aversions too in common, and could have the comfort of laughing together over works of false sentimentality and pompous pretension. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A pompous butler ushered us severely to the door, and we found ourselves in the street. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Her little boy sat by her side in pompous new sables. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Then he opened the book-case, and took down the great red Bible we have spoken of a pompous book, seldom looked at, and shining all over with gold. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He was in full dress, as pompous as an undertaker. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mr Twemlow, your word will have weight with her pompous, self-blinded father. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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