Colleagues soon found Kennedy to be an odd combination of bombast and self-effacement.
同事们很快便发现,肯尼迪是一个夸夸其谈和自谦两者兼具的奇葩。
经济学人(汇总)
For a while, in Cairo and Beirut, he worked for Radio Palestine, but the bombast and sloganeering of politics repelled him.
他曾在开罗和贝鲁特为巴勒斯坦广播电台工作过一段时间,但他对政治的夸夸其谈和口号感到厌恶。
潘潘
It's not bombast that I cured her broken bosom bone with borax.
这不是夸大的言辞,我曾用硼砂治疗过她断了的胸骨。
《金融时报》 Podcast
After all this sort of bombast, you know, I can do it better, the Americans aren't helping us.
在所有这些夸张之后, 你知道,我可以做得更好, 美国人没有帮助我们。
红与黑(四)
" All the bombast which our opponent has stolen from Bossuet and lavished upon you, " said the advocate, " has done you good" .
“我们的对手从 Bossuet 那里窃取并慷慨地夸耀你,”辩护人说,“对你有好处”。
纽约时报 (New York Times)
" There are a lot of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software, " Dobbs said, his usual bombast strangely absent.
Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.
和他一起生活,有时是很愉快的,虽然他有个怪毛病,不许别人在他面前扯谎、夸夸其谈,或装模作样。
英语百科
Fustian
(重定向自Bombast)
Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian.