查询词典 bombast

He sat there as bold as brass and blurted out bombast.

他大模大样地坐在那儿，脱口而出的全是大话。

Since the 16th century was apparently every bit as afflicted by longwinded balderdash as ours,"bombast" almost immediately acquired the figurative meaning of "fancy or pretentious language on a trivial subject," and we've been inundated by verbal "bombast" ever since.

如同今天我们遇到的，自从16世纪的人们也饱受那些冗长的胡言乱语折磨以后，bombast几乎立刻就用来比喻那些本来微不足道却又被花言巧语一番的样子。自那以后，现代人就被淹没在bombast的洪流中了。

This extravagance of metaphors, with its naive BomBast

这些隐喻的夸张，带着天真的高调

Most of that was typical Hitler bombast.

大多数的秘密武器都是希特勒的豪言壮语，夸夸其谈。

He also knows that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to wipe Israel off the map is bombast.

他还知道伊朗总统内贾德威胁把以色列从地图上抹掉的说法只是吹牛。

These are best described as a stupefying roar of bombast occasionally interrupted by a few words of real sublimity.

这些都是最好的形容为stupefying轰鸣声bombast偶尔中断的几句话，真正的崇高。

And there we have the critical clue --"bombast" is padding, fluff pretending to be substance.

我们有了关键线索了---bombast是纺织物里蓬松的填充料。

Dear Word Detective: What's the origin of the word "bombast"?

侦探先生，您能否告诉我单词 bombast的由来？

The American newspapers, years ago, passed through such a stage of bombast, but since the invention of yellow journalism by the elder James Gordon Bennett—that is, the invention of journalism for the frankly ignorant and vulgar—they have gone to the other extreme.

美国的报纸，几年前，通过这样一个阶段， bombast ，但由于发明了黄色新闻老詹姆斯戈登班奈特-那就是，发明，新闻为坦白无知和庸俗的，他们去了另一个极端。

The root of "bombast" was the Greek "bombux," which meant "silk or silkworm," and when "bombast" entered English in the 16th century it meant "cotton," or, more specifically, the sort of "cotton-wool" used as padding or stuffing in upholstery or clothes.

其词根来自希腊词bombux，意思是丝或蚕茧。16世纪这个词传入英语，意思变成了棉花，或者更准确地说，成了用来填塞衣服或房间装饰物棉毛衬垫。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。