swagger

英 ['sw?g?] 美['sw?ɡ?]
  • vt. 嚇唬；趾高氣揚(yáng)地行走或行事
  • vi. 大搖大擺；吹牛；虛張聲勢(shì)嚇人
  • n. 大搖大擺；吹牛；威嚇；下擺散開(kāi)狀的女式短大衣
  • adj. 炫耀的；時(shí)髦的
TEM8GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

詞態(tài)變化

第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?swaggers;過(guò)去式:?swaggered;過(guò)去分詞:?swaggered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?swaggering;

助記提示

1. swing => swag.
2. frequentative form of swag.
3. sway => swag => swagger.

中文詞源

swagger 昂首闊步，夸耀，炫耀

來(lái)自 swag,搖擺地走，-er,表反復(fù)。引申詞義昴首闊步，夸耀，炫耀。

英文詞源

swagger (v.)
1580s, "to strut in a defiant or insolent manner;" earliest recorded usages are in Shakespeare ("Midsummer Night's Dream," "2 Henry IV," "King Lear"), probably a frequentative form of swag (v.) "to sway." Meaning "to boast or brag" is from 1590s. Related: Swaggered; swaggering. The noun is attested from 1725.

雙語(yǔ)例句

1. He walked with something of a swagger.
他趾高氣揚(yáng)地走著。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. He emerged with a macho swagger.
他大搖大擺地走了出來(lái).

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

3. Let my nephew and Goldthred swagger about their wager as they list.
讓我外甥和戈德斯雷德去信口開(kāi)河地打賭,隨他們的便吧.

來(lái)自辭典例句

4. Ants on the locust tree assume a great - nation swagger.
螞蟻緣槐夸大國(guó).

來(lái)自辭典例句

5. Indeed, Romona did look like those figures of sex and swagger.
的確, 雷蒙看起來(lái)很象那種性感十足的輕佻的人.

來(lái)自辭典例句