flaunt

• vt. 炫耀；飘扬
• vi. 飘扬；夸耀
• n. 炫耀；飘扬；招展

可能来自flout和vaunt的合成词。

flaunt (v.)

1560s, "to display oneself in flashy clothes," of unknown origin. Perhaps a variant of flout or vaunt. Perhaps from Scandinavian, where the nearest form seems to be Swedish dialectal flankt "loosely, flutteringly," from flakka "to waver" (related to flag (v.1)). It looks French, but it corresponds to no known French word. Transitive sense, "flourish (something), show off, make an ostentatious or brazen display of" is from 1827. Related: Flaunted; flaunting; Flauntingly.

flaunt (n.)

1620s, "act or habit of flaunting," from flaunt (v.).

1. One secret he learned very early on was not to flaunt his success.

他很早就学到的一个秘诀就是不要夸耀自己的成功。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Flaunt your age and you must not have much longer to live.

卖老要活不长的.

来自汉英文学 - 围城

3. He flaunts his queer style as a savage might flaunt a top - hat retrieved from somebody's dustbin.

他对自己那种怪异的文体加以夸耀这恰似一个野人从别人的垃圾箱里捡出一顶礼帽时那种洋洋得意的样子.

来自辞典例句

4. Abstract: Luxury consumption is always connected with motivation of flaunt.

摘要: 消费的奢侈性通常被认为与炫耀动机有关.

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5. Why would you flaunt that on a public forum?

为什么你们会在公共论坛大肆炫耀?

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