人把自己舉高
最直接的核心用法：主角是人，舉起來的是自己的能力、成就或財產，動作和話語都朝著「要人佩服」。
boast, brag · verb · B2
To talk about your own abilities, the things you have done, or the things you own in a way that is too proud, because you want other people to admire you.
自誇；吹噓
核心畫面
A useful picture: holding something of yours up in the air so everyone has to look at it — my grades, my car, my son. The thing may be real; what marks a boast is the lifting-up, the wanting to be admired.
比較像：把自己的東西高高舉起來給大家看——我的成績、我的車、我的兒子。東西本身可能是真的、也真的不錯，但 boast…更多收起
比較像：把自己的東西高高舉起來給大家看——我的成績、我的車、我的兒子。東西本身可能是真的、也真的不錯，但 boast 抓住的是那個「舉起來」的動作：想讓別人看見、想被讚嘆。這也是為什麼用在人身上時常帶貶意（吹噓），可是同一個動作換到地方或建築上，就只剩「有值得展示的東西」這層意思，聽起來反而是稱讚。Two branches
地方擁有值得展示的東西
同樣是「把好東西舉起來給人看」，但主詞從人換成地方或組織；沒有了人的虛榮心，這個動作就從貶義轉成了單純的稱道。
have, feature (something impressive) · verb · B2
If a place, a building, an object, or an organization boasts something, it has something good that people would be pleased or impressed to find there.
擁有（值得誇耀的東西）
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
boastnoun詞源 1/bəʊst/
- 1
A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
- 2
Something that one brags about.
- It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
- 3
ball-gamesgameshobbiesA shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
boastverb詞源 1/bəʊst/
- 1
To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.
- 2
(used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- 3
obsoleteTo speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
- In God we boast all the day long.
- 4
ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo play a boast shot.
- 5
To possess (a special and desirable quality).
- The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
- His family boasted a famous name.
boastverb詞源 2/bəʊst/
- 1
businessconstructionmanufacturingTo dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- 2
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。