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A way of walking or behaving that shows a lot of confidence - sometimes admired as cool and easy, sometimes seen as a little too proud, depending on how it's said. As a noun, 'he walks with swagger' describes that confident, relaxed-but-bold style; as a verb, 'he swaggered into the room' describes doing it.
(名詞)自信滿滿的派頭、氣勢;(動詞)大搖大擺地走
原始詞典資料8 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。
swaggerverb詞源 1/ˈswæɡ.ə/
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To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
- What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?
- He is a political humbug, the greatest of all humbugs; a man who swaggers about London clubs and consults solemnly about his influence, and in the country is a nonentity.
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To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.
- For the common Soldier when he goes to the Market or Ale-house will offer this Money, and if it be refused, perhaps he will SWAGGER and HECTOR, and Threaten to Beat the BUTCHER or Ale-Wife, or take the Goods by Force, and throw them the bad HALF-PENCE.
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To walk with a swaying motion.
- It's the injustice… he is so unjust— whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.
swaggernoun詞源 1/ˈswæɡ.ə/
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Confidence, pride.
- After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage
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A bold or arrogant strut.
- He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.
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A prideful boasting or bragging.
- Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their lives on the shattered dreams of others.
swaggeradj詞源 1/ˈswæɡ.ə/
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archaicslangFashionable; trendy.
- It is to be a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted.
- 15 March, 1896, Ernest Rutherford, letter to Mary Newton Mrs J.J. [Thomson] looked very well and was dressed very swagger and made a very fine hostess.
swaggernoun詞源 2/ˈswæɡ.ə/
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historicalSomeone carrying a swag; a swagman.
- There were now more swaggers passing down Ferry Street and more coming to ask for food […].
- She looked down in her half-dreaming state and thought they might be swaggers. There were lots of them that year, camped out on the riverbank netting for whitebait, then fanning out around the streets selling their catch door to door.
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。