| 单词 | bombast |
| 释义 | bom·bast I. 1. obsolete 2. < adolescent bombast about Destiny and Youth > Synonyms: < the rant and bombast and sentimental cant of politics — Florence Converse > < in the days when a more decorated style was fashionable in many quarters, bombast and extravagance were common in the press — F.L.Mott > rhapsody may suggest ecstatic effusiveness, extravagant and often incoherent < a rhapsody of enchanting images which “led to nothing” — Times Literary Supplement > < his characters, because of the intensity of his feeling about them, are excellently drawn, but he writes as though he had uncovered a new religion and thought it deserved a rhapsody, at least — New Yorker > rant is likely to suggest sustained violence of expression < Williams, in a characteristic prose rant, writes as if free verse were one of the inalienable rights for which the American Revolution was fought — Irving Howe > < the hoarse rant of that demagogue fills the air and distracts the people's minds — Max Ascoli > fustian suggests or may suggest a filling or padding with the sonorous or grandiloquent but inane < lines of Jonson, detached from their context, look like inflated or empty fustian — T.S.Eliot > < condemned as literary because its characters speak the fustian of pretentious books — C.E.Montague > rodomontade may suggest the bluster or swaggering rant of the mountebank, braggart, or demagogue < the brothers set about abusing each other in good round terms and with each intemperate sally their phrases became more deeply colored with the tincture of Victorian rodomontade — Ngaio Marsh > II. 1. archaic 2. < a book bombasted with attempts at wit > III. archaic |
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