vaunted

英 [ˈvɔːntɪd]

美 [ˈvɔːntɪd]

adj.  被吹嘘的; 被夸耀的
v.  吹嘘；自负
vaunt的过去分词和过去式

BNC.35841 / COCA.19563

牛津词典

adj.

• 被吹嘘的；被夸耀的
  proudly talked about or praised as being very good, especially when this is not deserved
  1. Their much vaunted reforms did not materialize.
     他们大肆吹嘘的改革并没有实现。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 被吹嘘的;被过分夸耀的
  If you describe something asvauntedormuch vaunted, you mean that people praise it more than it deserves.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• A new and much vaunted national cinema.
  一部新的被大肆吹捧的国产影片。
• In the West, many assumed that these policy imperatives, combined with China's vaunted prowess at rolling out transport infrastructure as well as government ownership of the country's big carmakers would assure the success of the national push for electric vehicles.
  西方国家很多人认为，考虑到中国的这些政策规定，再加上中国在交通基础设施建设方面的高歌猛进，以及大型汽车制造商的国有性质，中国推动电动汽车发展的战略必将取得成功。
• Nevertheless, the vaunted Spartan army was defeated by Thebes in371 BC at the Battle of Leuctra.
  可是，公元前三七一年留克特拉一役，备受推崇的斯巴达军队却为底比斯所败。
• I was surprised to find that his much vaunted car was old and of a rather common kind.
  我很吃惊地发现，他那大大吹嘘的车子竟是辆很平常的旧车。
• Our advice was discredited as Russians came to believe that we were untrue to our own principles and unable even to run our much vaunted liberal economy properly.
  于是俄罗斯人不再相信我们的建议，他们开始认为，我们不但不忠于自己的原则，甚至也管理不好我们大力吹捧的自由经济。
• Few dictionaries other than the vaunted Oxford English Dictionary provide enough usage examples.
  除了自负的《牛津英语词典》之外，很少有字典能提供足够的用法示例。
• 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。
• FOR all its vaunted decentralisation, the internet is a top-down affair when it comes to security.
  互联网自诩权力下放，可当涉及到安全时，它又是个自上而下的事情了。
• In the third quarter of last year despite the vaunted recovery of the UK economy real gross domestic product per head was the same as in the third quarter of 2006 and 1.8 per cent lower than in the first quarter of 2008 ( the pre-crisis peak).
  去年第三季度，尽管英国自诩实现经济复苏，但实际人均国内生产总值（GDP）仅与2006年第三季度持平，与2008年第一季度的数字（危机前的峰值）相比则低了1.8%。
• Google may try to depict the last two months 'wrangling as a success, on the grounds that its vaunted principles were upheld.
  对于过去两个月的争论，谷歌或许会试图以成功冠之，理由是其夸耀不已的原则得到了坚持。