bravado

英 [brəˈvɑːdəʊ]

美 [brəˈvɑːdoʊ]

n.  逞能; 逞强; (有时)虚张声势

复数：bravados　

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Collins.1 / BNC.19061 / COCA.13971

牛津词典

noun

• 逞能；逞强；（有时）虚张声势
  a confident way of behaving that is intended to impress people, sometimes as a way of hiding a lack of confidence
  1. an act of sheer bravado
     纯属逞能的举动

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 虚张声势；逞能；逞强
  Bravadois an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
  1. 'You won't get away with this,' he said with unexpected bravado.
     “这事你休想就这么过去，”他以出人意料的强横语气说道。

英英释义

noun

• a swaggering show of courage
  Synonym:bluster

双语例句

• The soldiers cloaked their fear with joking and bravado.
  士兵们藉开玩笑和夸口来掩饰其恐惧。
• As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
  我补充一句，他有时表现得过分逞强。
• However, she is still childlike, while all her cunningness is no more than bravado.
  但是实质上她还是保有孩子气，她的复杂只是一种虚张声势。
• But he was the first to face it with such bravado.
  可是他却是第一个作得这样有声有色。
• Buying all those shares was just an act of bravado.
  买下所有那些股票只是一个虚张声势的举动。
• She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.
  她姘识了一个汉子，一个不相干、她不爱的人，那完全是出自心中的愤懑和存心要胡作非为。
• I believe this talk is a function more of ego and bravado than really trying to give a founder the best advice for building a sustainable, long term, profitable business.
  我认为这样的说法更多地只会让人感到自负，想逞能，对于打造一家能持久运转、长期盈利的企业而言并不是最好的建议。
• His bravado had gone now.
  他那种英雄气概全然不见了。
• Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
  别理会他的威胁&完全是虚张声势。
• But today, I was not here out of bravado.
  但今天，我今天没出虚张声势。