grandiloquent

grandiloquent

英 [græn'dɪləkwənt]
　　美

adj. 誇張的；誇大的；大言不慚的

中文詞源：

grandiloquent 賣弄詞藻的

grand, 壯麗的，堂皇的。-loq, 說，詞源同colloquy, loquacious.

例句：

1. She attacked her colleagues for indulging in "grandiose and grandiloquent language".
她抨擊同事“言辭浮誇做作”。

2. Indeed, no eulogy could be more grandiloquent than this.
真是恭維備至.

3. For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings , we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears.
多少年來, 報紙上, 廣播裡, 舞臺上,會場上的聲嘶力竭, 裝腔做態的高調搞得我們震耳欲聾.

4. He prefered, in his grandiloquent way , to call a spade a spade.
他喜歡誇誇其談地談出事實的真相來.

5. There are about 900 English translations of the Bible, ranging from the grandiloquent to the colloquial.
《聖經》大約有900種英語譯本, 范圍從浮華做作到通俗白話.