bombast

        英 ['b?mb?st] 美['bɑmb?st]
        • n. 夸大的言辭
        • adj. 夸大的

        GRE暢通詞匯

        詞態變化


        形容詞:?bombastic;

        中文詞源


        bombast 吹噓

        來自拉丁詞bombyx, 絲,絲棉。吹噓義可能來自bomb。

        英文詞源


        bombast
        bombast: [16] Bombast originally meant ‘cotton-wool’, especially as used for stuffing or padding clothes, upholstery, etc; hence, before the end of the 16th century, it had been transferred metaphorically to ‘pompous or turgid language’. The ultimate source of the word was Greek bómbux ‘silk, silkworm’, which came into English via Latin bombyx, bombax (source also of English bombazine [16]) and Old French bombace. The earliest English form was bombace, but it soon developed an additional final -t.
        => bombazine
        bombast (n.)
        1560s, "cotton padding," corrupted from earlier bombace (1550s), from Old French bombace "cotton, cotton wadding," from Late Latin bombacem, accusative of bombax "cotton, 'linteorum aut aliae quaevis quisquiliae,' " a corruption and transferred use of Latin bombyx "silk," from Greek bombyx "silk, silkworm" (which also came to mean "cotton" in Medieval Greek), from some oriental word, perhaps related to Iranian pambak (modern panba) or Armenian bambok, perhaps ultimately from a PIE root meaning "to twist, wind." From stuffing and padding for clothes or upholstery, meaning extended to "pompous, empty speech" (1580s).

        Also from the same source are Swedish bomull, Danish bomuld "cotton," and, via Turkish forms, Modern Greek mpampaki, Rumanian bumbac, Serbo-Croatian pamuk. German baumwolle "cotton" is probably from the Latin word but altered by folk-etymology to look like "tree wool." Polish bawe?na, Lithuanian bovelna are partial translations from German.

        雙語例句


        1. There was no bombast or conceit in his speech.
        他的演講并沒有夸大其詞和自吹自擂。

        來自辭典例句

        2. But Yasha realized that Wolsky's bombast was unnecessary.
        但是雅夏看出沃爾斯基是在無中生有地吹噓.

        來自辭典例句

        3. And even Watts, for all his bombast, can be quite self - critical.
        這使得瓦特對他自己的夸大言辭也做了 自我批評 .

        來自互聯網

        4. His speech was full of bombast.
        他的講演通篇是夸夸其談.

        來自互聯網

        5. He also knows that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat wipe Israel off the map is bombast.
        他還知道伊朗總統內賈德威脅把以色列從地圖上抹掉的說法只是吹牛.

        來自互聯網

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