| 单词 | boast |
| 释义 | boast (once / 191 pages) vn When you boast you are bragging about yourself and your accomplishments (or maybe those of your family), often to the boredom and annoyance of your audience. Used as either a noun or a verb, boast usually suggests exaggeration, vanity, or pride. Along those lines, English poet Sir Thomas Overbury, who died in 1613, once said, "The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato — the best part underground." However, the word can also be used in a positive way: a town can boast a new library, or a school can boast a high graduation rate. WORD FAMILYboast: boasted, boaster, boastful, boasting, boasts+/boaster: boasters/boastful: boastfully, boastfulness/boasting: boastings USAGE EXAMPLESHis colleagues say Ryberg is a dedicated family man who never boasts about his many children. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Trump rallied to victory in November with unapologetic boasting of his wealth. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Connolly’s website boasts that he secured billions of dollars in federal grants to undertake the massive Silver Line project. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1v show off Syn|Hypo|Hyper blow, bluster, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt puff speak in a blustering or scornful manner crow, gloat, triumphdwell on with satisfaction congratulate, preenpride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth 2v wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner Syn|Hyper feature, sport feature, have have as a feature 3n speaking of yourself in superlatives Syn|Hypo|Hyper boasting, jactitation, self-praise brag, bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing an instance of boastful talk bluster, braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontadevain and empty boasting vauntextravagant self-praise self-assertionthe act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others speech act the use of language to perform some act |
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