pompous

英 [ˈpɒmpəs]

美 [ˈpɑːmpəs]

adj.  虚华的; 言辞浮夸的

IELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.11603 / COCA.17023

牛津词典

adj.

• 虚华的；言辞浮夸的
  showing that you think you are more important than other people, especially by using long and formal words
  1. a pompous official
     自负的官员

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 自负的；自命不凡的
  If you describe someone aspompous, you mean that they behave or speak in a very serious way because they think they are more important than they really are.
  1. He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities.
     他有点自大，自视甚高。
• ADJ-GRADED 盛大的；壮观的
  Apompousbuilding or ceremony is very grand and elaborate.
  1. The service was grand without being pompous.
     仪式场面宏大，却不浮华。

双语例句

• The prose of his official communications was so laboured, pompous and verbose
  他笔下的公文矫揉浮华，长篇大论。
• He is just full of wind, the pompous fool!
  他空话连篇，是个自负的蠢材！
• Because the bread and wine were not physically transformed into Christ's body and blood, there was no need for spurious ceremonies and pompous rituals.
  因为饼与酒没有在实际上转化成基督的身体和血，虚假的典礼和浮夸的仪式就可以免了。
• My pompous British teacher says all Americans are stupid.
  我那个自大的英国老师说所美国人都很愚蠢。
• He saw behind his patient's pompous manner and arrogant pride an anxiety that he could not dispel.
  他发现病人的自负夸张和傲慢自大掩盖着一种无法摆脱的焦虑心情。
• Mr Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man.
  柯林斯先生是个自高自大，喜爱炫耀、心胸狭窄的蠢汉。
• It's a pompous shack, just like him.
  有点华而不实，和他一样。
• What a load of pompous, pseudo-intellectual rot
  真是自命不凡的伪知识分子的一派胡言！
• The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician.
  人们常常发现一位离了职的首相当年只不过是个大言不惭的演说家。
• He is a good man underneath his pompous appearance.
  他外表虽傲慢，其实是个好人。