boast

英[bəʊst]美[boʊst]

v.吹嘘，自夸，拥有（值得自豪的东西）；

n.夸耀，夸口；

第三人称单数：boasts;

过去式：boasted;

过去分词：boasted;

现在分词：boasting;

例句

Great boast, small roast.说得多, 做得少。出自：英语谚语

We boast of our professional refurbishing team.我们拥有专业的修缮队伍.

It was the enemys boast of impregnability that caused their own defeat.敌人自我吹嘘战无不胜,这*终导致了他们自己的失败.

I don't want to boast, but I can actually speak six languages.不是我吹嘘，我确实能讲六种语言。

We remember our mother's stern instructions not to boast.我们谨记母亲不许我们在人前炫耀的严厉教诲。

Some parents always boast of their children's acquirement.有些父母总爱夸耀自己孩子的才能.

His proud boast of leading 'the party of low taxation' has a hollow ring.他洋洋得意地吹嘘自己领导着“一个主张低税收的**”，这听起来很空洞。

His statement isn't merely an idle boast.他的话不仅仅是虚张声势的自夸。

In its heyday, the studio's boast was that it had more stars than there are in heaven.在其全盛时期，该制片公司夸口说，他们旗下的明星比天上的星星还要多。

...men who boast about their sexual conquests to all their friends.向所有朋友吹嘘自己如何搞定女人的男人

英语六级真题

It is estimated that Antarctica boasts of the richest reserves of fresh water on earth.

Elsewhere in Antarctica, Russian researchers boast of their recent discovery of a freshwater reserve the size of Lake Ontario after drilling through miles of solid ice.

( ' , Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

For a start, you will now see plenty more women – the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, for example, boasts that 40% of its new enrolment is female.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

吹嘘；炫耀；夸耀

If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.

例句

VERB

有，拥有（值得骄傲的成就或财产）

If someone or something can boast a particular achievement or possession, they have achieved or possess that thing.

例句

英英词典释义

Noun

1. speaking of yourself in superlatives

Verb

1. show off

2. wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;