【boastful】 - AEAS备考词汇

boastful

UK:  ['bəʊstf(ə)l]

US:  ['boʊstfəl]

adj.

1.夸口的,自负的,傲慢的

2.自负

3.夸耀,爱说大话的

4.夸张(的),瞎说

1 . say this, yet it never seemed boastful or regretful to me but like a simple fact that left no trace at all in her life.
从那时起，我经常听到她那样说，但是我觉得似乎没有任何夸耀和遗憾在里面，这只是一个简单的事实，在她的生活中根本无足轻重。

2 . Boastful and careless, the hare lost the race . Now he would never again be able to count on his speed .
兔子因为自负和粗心大意输掉了比赛。现在他再也不能夸耀自己的速度了。

3 . Next, the woman allowed the boastful wolf to try, because he was a conceited fellow, and was always telling the other animals what to do.
之后，女人允许自负的狼去试试，因为它比较狂妄，还能命令其他动物做事。

4 . Several years ago, the U. S. automobile-rental company Avis came up with an imaginative, if not exactly boastful, advertising slogan.
几年前，美国汽车租赁公司安飞士就想出了一个富有想象力的，如果不完全自夸，广告口号。

5 . The trick is starting the discussion of a subject without appearing to be boastful moralizing or unnatural.
这其中的诀窍是：展开的话题不致使人感到不自然，或显得自夸，以及有道德化倾向。