swank
英 [sw??k]
美[sw??k]
- n. 出風頭；虛張聲勢
- vi. 炫耀；出風頭
- adj. 愛打扮的，華麗的
- n. (Swank)人名；(英)斯旺克
暢通詞匯GRE
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數:?swanks;過去式:?swanked;過去分詞:?swanked;現(xiàn)在分詞:?swanking;
助記提示
1. 天鵝小姐愛打扮。
中文詞源
swank 炫耀，賣弄
來自輔音叢 sw-,彎，轉，搖擺，搖晃，比較 swing,sway,sweep,swipe.引申比喻義炫耀，賣弄。
英文詞源
- swank (adj.)
- "stylish, classy, posh," 1913, from earlier noun or verb; "A midland and s.w. dial. word taken into general slang use at the beginning of the 20th cent." [OED]; compare swank (n.) "ostentatious behavior," noted in 1854 as a Northampton word; swank (v.), from 1809 as "to strut, behave ostentatiously." Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swank-, from PIE *sweng(w)-, a Germanic root meaning "to swing, turn, toss" (cognates: Middle High German swanken "to sway, totter, turn, swing," Old High German swingan "to swing;" see swing (v.)). Perhaps the notion is of "swinging" the body ostentatiously (compare swagger).
A separate word-thread derives from Old English swancor "pliant, bending," and from this comes swanky (n.) "active or clever young fellow" (c. 1500).
雙語例句
- 1. There was no swank in Martin.
- 馬丁從不炫耀自己。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. It was Swank's judgment that he had become irrelevant.
- 斯旺克的評價是,此人已無足輕重了.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Don't be such a swank!
- 別那麼招搖!
來自辭典例句
- 4. Swank as well as I still hoped that perhaps they had not shown their hand completely.
- 斯旺克和我仍抱希望,也許他們還沒有完全亮出他們的牌.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Swank was born in Washington State, or perhaps Nebraska.
- 斯萬卡出生于華盛頓州, 或者可能是內布拉斯加州.
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