vaunted

vaunted

['vɔntɪd]

adj. 自誇的；大肆吹噓的
　　v. 誇耀；吹牛（vaunt的過去分詞）

中文詞源：

vaunted 被吹噓的

來自拉丁語vanus,虛無的，自大的，詞源同vain,vanity.

例句：

1. Simpson's much vaunted discoveries are in fact commonplace in modern sociology.
辛普森的那些被大肆稱贊的發現在現代社會學中實際上都不足為奇。

2. Its vaunted security procedures hadn't worked.
它那套被大肆吹噓的安保程序並沒有發揮作用。

3. Their much vaunted reforms did not materialize.
他們大肆吹噓的改革並沒有實現。

4. That's something that not even the vaunted U.S. medical research establishment can do by itself.
這項工作即使是自負的美國醫學研究機構也是無法獨立完成的.

5. His plays were being well enough received to render the most vaunted dramatists uneasy.
他的劇本受到人們歡迎,足以使最自負的劇作傢也為之不安.