bravado
英 [brəˈvɑːdəʊ]
美 [brəˈvɑːdoʊ]
n. 逞能; 逞强; (有时)虚张声势
复数：bravados
Collins.1 / BNC.19061 / COCA.13971
牛津词典
noun
- 逞能；逞强；（有时）虚张声势
a confident way of behaving that is intended to impress people, sometimes as a way of hiding a lack of confidence- an act of sheer bravado
纯属逞能的举动
- an act of sheer bravado
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 虚张声势；逞能；逞强
Bravadois an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.- 'You won't get away with this,' he said with unexpected bravado.
“这事你休想就这么过去，”他以出人意料的强横语气说道。
- 'You won't get away with this,' he said with unexpected bravado.
英英释义
noun
- a swaggering show of courage
双语例句
- I have confidence but not much bravado.
我有自信，却不自大。 - He was first into the sea, and at once swam out with the bravado of justifying his self-given reputation.
他第一个下海，立刻施展本领游了出去，要证明自己夸下的海口。 - Some mad, defiant act of bravado.
虚张声势的某种疯狂的、挑衅的行为。 - The three would exchange stories of evading the Imperials, telling tall tales full of bravado and bluster.
这三个人都喜欢在对方面前吹嘘自己如何躲避帝国的追捕，他们的故事里充满了虚张声势的情节。 - I hope I live long enough to see the end of the bravado crap.
我希望我能活到看到这些虚张声势的东西终结的那天。 - Their behaviour was just sheer bravado.
他们的行为完全是虚张声势。 - I do not say this in any spirit of bravado or belligerence.
我说这句话并不是虚张声势，也不是穷兵黩武。 - It took Mourinho's wit, pragmatism, bravado and skill to make sense of the numbers and if Chelsea are prepared to take his significance lightly, they did not deserve him in the first place.
穆里尼奥是用自己的智慧，实用主义，自信和技巧来使用这么多钱财的，如果切尔西小看了他的这个本事的话，那他们就不配拥有穆里尼奥了。 - She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.
她姘识了一个汉子，一个不相干、她不爱的人，那完全是出自心中的愤懑和存心要胡作非为。 - Anti-American bravado was always a sure way to excite a crowd and strike a pose of national virility.
反美呼声一直是一种激发群众和显示民族气概的可靠方法。