vaunted

vaunted

英[ˈvɔ:ntɪd]美[ˈvɔːntɪd]

adj.被自我吹嘘的；

v.<文>吹嘘，自夸( vaunt的过去式和过去分词 )，吹牛，自吹，夸耀；

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This hardly inspires confidence in its much - vaunted manufacturing and design prowess.这种*面很难激发人信任它自视甚高的生产和设计本领.

His most vaunted exploits were exposed as largely fictitious.他*自豪的功绩,戳穿后才知大抵都是虚构的.

His plays were being well enough received to render the most vaunted dramatists uneasy.他的剧本受到人们欢迎,足以使*自负的剧作家也为之不安.

Simpson's much vaunted discoveries are in fact commonplace in modern sociology.辛普森的那些被大肆称赞的发现在现代社会学中实际上都不足为奇。

Its vaunted security procedures hadn't worked...它那套被大肆吹嘘的安保程序并没有发挥作用。

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ADJ

被吹嘘的;被过分夸耀的

If you describe something as vaunted or much vaunted, you mean that people praise it more than it deserves.

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