boast

美音：[boʊst] 英音：[bəʊst]

简单释义：

n.夸耀；夸口

v.自夸；自吹自擂；有（值得自豪的东西）

网络吹牛；吹嘘；以有……而自豪

变形：

第三人称单数：boasts 现在分词：boasting 过去式：boasted

完整释义：

1.夸,夸口,自负
2.吹牛;自夸
3.夸夸其谈;牛皮
4.(…的)骄傲
5.自负的事物,引为自傲的东西
6.铁棒
7.厚板
8.粗凿石
9.钢铁块

1.夸,夸耀,夸口说
2.夸,自夸;夸耀
3.以有…而自豪,有可以夸耀的…;自负有,自恃有
4.自夸;自吹自擂:
5.吹,吹牛,吹嘘,自吹自擂,大吹大擂
6.夸张,言过其实
7.引以自豪,感到自豪
8.有,自称有
9.粗琢

例句：

Taliban commanders boast that they have 10, 000 fighters, plus a swarm of thousands of suicide-bombers, ready to go into action.
塔利班将领夸口说他们有1万名战士，另加成千上万的自杀人肉炸弹，准备投入行动。
Given all these disadvantages, central bankers seem to have had much to boast about of late.
虽然有这么多不利因素，但近来央行的银行家们似乎有了不少值得夸耀的东西。
Thanks to its low thickness, the CDL+ can end is able to boast material savings of up to ten percent compared to conventional can ends.
它的低浓度下，民盟+可以结束可以夸耀高达百分之十节省材料比传统可以结束。
A bear used to boast of his excessive love for man. saying that he never worried or mauled him when dead .
一只熊总喜欢夸耀自己很爱人，他说人死了之后，他从来不咬他或伤害他。
And if I dole out all my possessions to feed others, and if I deliver up my body that I may boast, but do not have love, I profit nothing.
我若将我一切所有的变卖为食物分给人吃，又舍己身叫我可以夸口，却没有爱，仍然与我无益。
Our situation with regard to Lady Catherine's family is indeed the sort of extraordinary advantage and blessing which few can boast.
咖苔琳夫人府上对我们真是特别优待，特别爱护，这种机会是别人求之不得的。
It has never been the boast of a modest person that he alone could accomplish such a hard task.
一个谦虚的人从来不会夸口说只有他才能够完成这样一件困难的任务。
He thought that it was something of which he could justifiably boast.
他认为这是一件可以自夸的事。

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