音标:[swæŋks] ;
v. <英, 非正, 贬>炫耀, 卖弄( swank的第三人称单数 )
n elegance by virtue of being fashionable
v display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

swank的用法和样例:

例句

用作动词(v.)
  1. People around here don't swank about their money.这附近的人们都不会炫耀他们有多少钱。
  2. She's swanking just because they said her essay was the best.皆因人称她的文章最好,她就忘乎所以了。
用作名词(n.)
  1. In spite of all his swank, he has never achieved very much.无论他如何炫耀,他其实并没有取得多少成就。
  2. He just relies on bluff and putting on a show with his bright ideas and his swank!他的法宝就是说大话,像煞有介事,满嘴的有办法,有把握!
  3. Don't be such a swank.别那么招摇。

词汇搭配

  • swink辛劳
  • swanky 爱出风头的...

经典引文

  • A nondescript moneyed merchant who swanks about, giving orders to everyone.

    出自:V. S. Pritchett
【近义词】
学英语单词
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become retainer of
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booster unit
boulonnais
Breughels
cesium superoxide
commission receivable
consowyng
corundums
countercations
defective product label
denticulus
diaphragmatic vertebra (or anticlinal vertebra)
digital signal
distorted peak
drug-induced aplastic anemia
drummle
dry rendered tankage
Duvalieresque
engagement controller
enlightended marketing
everlasting regret
facsimile distortion
factory environmental protection
fall-away
fraipontite (fraiponite)
gateline
genus tremellas
gestagenic
GM_verb-patterns-verb-that-clause
hyper-critical
hypergolic
hypophysioprivic
in correspondence to
Joutel
kang cancer
Ligularia retusa
lisgar
lose her grip
Malabar ulcer
maria montesorris
maximum economic yield
milklessness
Mujkot
Nalagarh
natural gas fuel cell
navier-stokes
nerver
non-falsifiable
nozzle adjusting screw
oil-bearing horizon
on film
orbiting laboratory
outer disc
parent education
periodical damping
peritoneal dialysis
phacocystecom
pneumatic roller
pore shape factor
porosity level
precompressed zone
printing data protection
ray m. dolbies
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restringent
retrapped
roof scaping
rozansky
Sanicula caerulescens
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shopping lists
Sibbaldia perpusilloides
silicon monosulfide
sinus paranasales
Soppa
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splash guards
strong clay
stylohyoid muscle
SURPIC
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test-card
the british disease
theftful
Ti-n-Merzouga
transportation permit
tyara
uncheered
unsalvageably
WYM
Yekumbe