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a. 招摇的, 扬扬得意的, 夸耀的




    Flaunt \Flaunt\ (fl[aum]nt or fl[add]nt; 277), v. i. [imp. & p.
    p. {Flaunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Flaunting}.] [Cf. dial. G.
    flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter,
    flutter.]
    To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously;
    as, a flaunting show.

    You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
    --Arbuthnot.

    One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. --Pope.

    1. More than Dollars 50bn of corporate assets are likely to be brought to the market, increasing the capitalisation of the Paris bourse by as much as one-fifth. The world's leading merchant bankers are busy flaunting their wares to the French government.
    2. The play moves the thriller genre into drama, but does so by avoiding the whodunit mystery formula, because the murderers are flaunting their crime.
    3. But they represent for the staffer what he considers to be the types of excesses at taxpayer expense and the arrogant flaunting of laws that pervade the State Department hierarchy.
    4. Spellerberg had infuriated city officials by flaunting parking regulations, in effect using the vintage auto as a promotion for his business.
    5. Never tiring of flaunting his wealth, he decorated his Trump Tower triplex like a casino, then invited the world to admire his 80-foot-long living room, his 12-foot waterfall, his 24-carat-gold faucets and ceiling trim.
    6. It was the same old reason: oversupply." Three years ago today, American tourists were flaunting dollars in Paris and Tokyo while bargain-priced West German cars rolled off arriving cargo ships.
    7. The Gotlibs say Mrs. Greene won their confidence by flaunting puffy newspaper articles about herself as well as letters from police departments.
    8. The pretentious part of "S." is its flaunting of unassimilated lingo from the world of yoga and allied fields.
    9. Campaigning with Parker, Gray knows how to enhance his own power without flaunting it.
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