柯林斯英汉双解大词典
show off ( showing, showed, shown, shows )
-
1.
PHRASAL VERB If you say that someone is showing off, you are criticizing them for trying to impress people by showing in a very obvious way what they can do or what they own. 卖弄; 炫耀 [表不满]
例：All right, there's no need to show off.
好啦，没有必要炫耀了。
-
2.
PHRASAL VERB If you show off something that you have, you show it to a lot of people or make it obvious that you have it, because you are proud of it. 炫耀
例：Naomi was showing off her engagement ring.
内奥米那时正在炫耀她的订婚戒指。
-
3.
→ see also show-off
双语例句原声例句权威例句
-
All right, there's no need to show off.
好啦，没有必要炫耀了。
-
She wanted to show off her new husband at the party.
她想在聚会上炫耀自己的新婚丈夫。
-
They have a tendency to show off, to dramatize almost every situation.
他们有一种炫耀的倾向,几乎任何情况都要大肆渲染一番。
-
Not only did the gold show off a family's wealth and status, it was portable and easily sold in a crisis.
VOA: standard.2010.07.21
-
Well it was partly because he got so rich and he started wanting to show off.
部分原因是因为他太富有了,于是他想要四处炫耀
-
It's also another way that people show off their work.
这也是人们炫耀作品的另一种途径。
应用推荐