high-flown
英 [ˌhaɪ ˈfləʊn]
美 [ˌhaɪ ˈfloʊn]
adj. 浮夸的; 故弄玄虚的; 说大话的
牛津词典
adj.
- 浮夸的；故弄玄虚的；说大话的
very grand and complicated- His high-flown style just sounds absurd today.
他的浮夸风格如今听起来真是荒谬。
- His high-flown style just sounds absurd today.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED （语言）夸张的，文绉绉的，矫揉造作的
High-flownlanguage is very grand, formal, or literary.- It is highly probable that many of the Service's personnel were put off by such high-flown rhetoric.
很可能该部门的许多工作人员都对这种华而不实的虚夸言辞感到反感。
- It is highly probable that many of the Service's personnel were put off by such high-flown rhetoric.
双语例句
- For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high-flown speculations.
接下来的两天，嘉莉沉浸在想入非非中。 - For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high-flown speculations. He tried to yank his mind back out of fantasy.
随后的两天里，嘉利沉入了非非的幻想。他试图将思绪从想入非非的幻梦中拉回。 - These later, more worldly writings better suit our modern taste& more concrete, less high-flown.
后来这些写作变得更为世俗，更适合我们现代的品味&形象具体而不抽象形而上。 - He's full of high-flown ideas about how to save the world.
他脑子里充满了如何拯救世界的空想。 - An exalted ideal; argue in terms of high-flown ideals-Oliver Franks; a noble and lofty concept.
崇高的理想；为崇高的理想辩论-奥利弗·弗兰克斯；一个高贵而崇高的信念。 - It is highly probable that many of the Service's personnel were put off by such high-flown rhetoric.
很可能该部门的许多工作人员都对这种华而不实的虚夸言辞感到反感。 - It is through practical measures rather than epic, high-flown theories that she alleviates some of the world's misery.
它是通过切实可行的措施，而不是史诗，高飞行的理论，她减轻一些世界上的苦难。 - I've caught hold of you, he thought don't think to dazzle me with your high-flown style.
我逮住你啦，别看你闪烁其词，他想。 - Throughout two years of high-flown speechifying he promised to clean the Augean stables of Washington, close the revolving door between power and money and raise ethical standards.
在奥巴马两年浮夸的演说中，他到处许诺要清除华盛顿艰难的禁锢局面，关闭权力与金钱之间的“旋转门”，并提升伦理道德标准。 - The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her husband with a good deal of spirit.
这位老太太非常热心地接替她的丈夫做的善事，非常了不起。