grandiloquent
英 [ɡrænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt]
美 [ɡrænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt]
使用“联想记忆法”,可以将“grandiloquent”分解为“grand”(宏伟的)和“iloquent”(善于表达的)。想象一个“grand”的舞台或场合,上面站着一个“iloquent”(善于辞令的)人物,总是说着非常宏大、夸张的话语,从而形成对“grandiloquent”(夸张做作的)这一意思的直观记忆。
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grandiloquent 卖弄词藻的grand, 壮丽的,堂皇的。-loq, 说,词源同colloquy, loquacious.
- grandiloquent (adj.)
- 1590s, probably a back-formation from grandiloquence. Related: Grandiloquently.
- 1. She attacked her colleagues for indulging in "grandiose and grandiloquent language".
- 她抨击同事“言辞浮夸做作”。
- 2. Indeed, no eulogy could be more grandiloquent than this.
- 真是恭维备至.
- 3. For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings , we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears.
- 多少年来, 报纸上, 广播里, 舞台上,会场上的声嘶力竭, 装腔做态的高调搞得我们震耳欲聋.
- 4. He prefered, in his grandiloquent way , to call a spade a spade.
- 他喜欢夸夸其谈地谈出事实的真相来.
- 5. There are about 900 English translations of the Bible, ranging from the grandiloquent to the colloquial.
- 《圣经》大约有900种英语译本, 范围从浮华做作到通俗白话.