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

• 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。
• The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.
  这个年轻的罪犯，在受到他残暴袭击的受害者出来跟他对质时，他那虚张声势的嚣张气焰不见了。
• In the past year as a flight surgeon here, I've become accustomed to the air of bravado, determination, courage, and fear as they head out of fight.
  自从去年作为一名航空军医来到这里，我已经习惯这种他们奔赴战斗的气氛&满是虚张声势、决心、勇气和恐惧的气氛。
• Some mad, defiant act of bravado.
  虚张声势的某种疯狂的、挑衅的行为。
• But today, I was not here out of bravado.
  但今天，我今天没出虚张声势。
• 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。
• 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。
• Anti-American bravado was always a sure way to excite a crowd and strike a pose of national virility.
  反美呼声一直是一种激发群众和显示民族气概的可靠方法。
• Bravado would be no more appropriate than fear.
  虚张声势的表现还不如恐惧呢。
• 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。