喜樂美語
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    Pomposity is the way someone talks or acts when they want everyone to see them as important. They sound stiff and formal, and they use long words, as if they are giving a speech even in a small room. We use this word when we do not like that behaviour. It is a noun: it names the quality, or a remark full of that quality, not the person. Though actually the older idea behind it is — a grand public show, like a parade. The insult came later, when all that started to feel fake.

    裝腔作勢、浮誇（名詞：那股架子）

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組成From Middle English pomposite, from Latin pompōsitās. On the surface: pomp + -osity.

同家族的字

  • pompthe grand show at the root of the word
  • pompousthe adjective — a person or tone that has this quality
  • pompouslythe adverb — doing something in this stiff, self-important way

原始詞典資料1 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。

pompositynoun

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    The quality of being pompous; self-importance.

    • With their super-formal tone and heavy use of jargon, legal documents are renowned for their pomposity.
    • In death Sir Felix changed from a smug-scented pomposity with a Stalinist grip on Arts Council money into, oh, Britain’s best-loved arts guru since the last one.

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。