grandiose的意思|grandiose的解释-里氏词典

grandiose ['grændiәus]

a. 宏伟的, 壮丽的, 夸张的

[医] 夸大的

There are yet more grandiose plans in the air.
坊间甚至还有更夸大的计划。
We must do away with the grandiose style of work.
我们必须摈弃浮夸的工作作风。
He's always producing grandiose plans that never work.
他总是不断制订出浮夸而不能实现的计划。

grandiose

[ adj ]

impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval

<adj.all>

affectedly genteel

<adj.all>

Grandiose \Gran"di*ose"\, a. [F. grandiose, It. grandioso. See
{Grand}.]
1. Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid;
striking; -- in a good sense.

The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept
down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of
the whole. --M. Arnold.

The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. --C.
Kingsley.

2. Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor;
flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a
grandiose style.

Broad generalizations of this kind make many investors squirm. Any time people start believing grandiose claims about the supposed significance of what the market is doing, veterans of the game start to suspect that stocks are ripe for a fall.
To build his authority among the leadership, he offered grandiose promises of economic gains in the near term and claimed they could be accomplished without significant cuts in heavy industry or the military.
As part of the preshow hype, she described the match-up as "a blind date between Emily Dickinson and the Terminator." But the grandiose plans soon crashed head-on with a reality of mediocre ratings, poor reviews and, ultimately, diminished expectations.
Critics also claim Mrs. Aquino tends to make grandiose promises without keeping them.
The EEC proposals encapsulate what Mrs. Thatcher dismisses as grandiose and impractical moves toward some kind of United States of Europe.
The release stated that 'no other information about the NRO or this project has been declassified'. For Mr Woolsey, the emergence of the grandiose over-budget project, aimed at accommodating 3,000 NRO employees, is another embarrassment.
The switch spoke volumes about the suddenly less grandiose visions rampant in the retail food sector.
But they and the others in the cast also had to find an acting style that would include a basis in the antique, a strong whiff of Berlioz's mature romanticism and his goal of finding a grandiose alternative to Wagner.
The paper's spartan office, which it rents in an unfashionable suburb of Milan, contrasts with the grandiose downtown headquarters of Corriere della Sera, the daily where Mr. Levi was economics editor until leaving four years ago.
Hydro now plans to double the debt for even more grandiose projects as it completes preparations for Quebec's exit from Canada.
CONSTRUCTION companies are used to perusing glossy brochures containing details of grandiose national development plans.
If "scientific" studies are the reason that ever-larger slices of the tax base get dedicated to grandiose and oversold environmental goals, less money will be left to support serious scientific research.
His grandiose plans included the romantic notion that guests should arrive at what he called "the people's shrine to culture" by barge.
And that means 42-year-old Michael Carpenter, president and chief executive since January, will for the first time take complete control of Kidder and try to make good on some grandiose plans.
Motivated by pride, profit and political considerations, the ancient King of Judea mobilized his money and manpower for a series of grandiose building projects.
There is understandable public relief at the absence of grandiose measures, given the disruption caused by the five shock plans imposed since 1986.
A good deal of the reason for July's frenetic reputation is nothing more grandiose that the sex lives of corn and soybean plants.
Soon after Chernobyl, the Politburo bowed to protests from leading writers and canceled a grandiose project that would have diverted Siberian rivers.
While Texaco's directors met in the Westin's grandiose 15th floor boardroom, Mr. Icahn's slate and advisors huddled into Suite 1511 of the Doubletree.
She and Mitterrand also renewed exchanges over what he sees as her constant efforts to put the brake on European unity and what she sees as grandiose rhetoric from a country as eager to preserve its national identity as anyone else.
Paarlberg faults the Reagan administration for setting "hopelessly grandiose" goals in the GATT talks.
Rather than grandiose visions, he concentrated on reforms he needs to tackle during the first few months. 'Brazil is in a hurry.
He died in 1985, but his name remains sacred for Albania's leaders, who last year opened a costly, grandiose museum in Tirana that is intended to enshrine his every deed and word in the national memory.
"Why after seven years of task forces and policy boards and grandiose claims have cocaine imports tripled, drug-related deaths doubled, and heroin imports risen by 50 percent?" he asked at a rally in Cleveland.
All recent history suggests that acquisitive financial institutions with grandiose global aspirations have a marked tendency to come unstuck.
"What struck me up there," says Mr. Baudry, "is you are in exceptional circumstances, with grandiose scenery, and the food you eat is ordinary."
Dutch Finance Minister H. Onno Ruding, chairman of the interim committee that makes major IMF lending decisions, spoke earlier in the day against "grandiose schemes" for debt relief.
Mr. Noreen calls the Satellite CD proposal "silly" and grandiose.
The proceeds of the leaseback of the bank's grandiose head office on Boulevard Haussmann should eradicate that risk. The transaction will also bolster Suez, which has been hit by the property problems of Banque La Henin, another subsidiary.
There are better ways to provide health care to the needy than through some grandiose new federal scheme.

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