Boasting

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boast

(n.) The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.

厄玛编辑

• Centuries hence, we Frenchmen and Englishmen might be boasting and killing each other still, carrying out bravely the Devil's code of honour. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• By a mixture of boasting, subtlety, and flattery he won over the young and ambitious Tsar, Alexander I--he was just thirty years old--to an alliance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mere boasting, Mr. Franklin, returned the old man obstinately. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There's no boasting in that letter, Fosco--she DOES know the Secret. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am much afraid lest the small success I meet with in my enquiries will make this observation bear the air of an apology rather than of boasting. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• This, Sir Knight, said Rebecca, is but idle boasting--a brag of what you would have done had you not found it convenient to do otherwise. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Is the same to me, Sordo said simply and not boasting. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Oh, shameful, shameful ending, after such unseemly boasting! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Here's old Bounderby always boasting that at my age he lived upon twopence a month, or something of that sort. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Mr. Trabb, said I, it's an unpleasant thing to have to mention, because it looks like boasting; but I have come into a handsome property. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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