- 1作秀、譁眾取寵
Grandstanding is doing or saying something mainly so other people will notice you and admire you. The real work — fixing the problem, helping the team, making a fair plan — is not the point; the show is the point. You hear it a lot about politicians, and also about people in meetings or on social media. It is a little : if you call it grandstanding, you are saying the person is showing off. It can be a noun (His speech was just grandstanding) or a verb (Stop grandstanding). Though actually, people also use it a bit loosely for any loud public display, even when the person does mean some of what they say.
組成grandstand + -ing. A grandstand is the big bank of seats at a sports field. The picture is: you are playing to the crowd in those seats, not doing the thing for its own sake.
同家族的字
- grandstandthe seating at a sports ground; grandstanding is acting for that crowd
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
grandstandingnoun
- 1
Dramatic or showy behavior intended to impress an audience or observers.
- Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
- "We are tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding," Klobuchar said in a speech to supporters. "Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right."
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