vaunt
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，方便你先看懂它的意思。
vauntverb詞源 1/vɔːnt/
- 1
To speak boastfully.
- "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
- 2
To speak boastfully about.
- 3
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
- Near-synonym: flaunt
- Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
vauntnoun詞源 1/vɔːnt/
- 1
An instance of vaunting; a boast.
- the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
- “In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! […]”
vauntnoun詞源 2/vɔːnt/
- 1
obsoleteThe first part.
- the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
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。