pompousness n. 豪华;傲慢
- I am curious - how does he feel about this overlit city? What pompousness can such a city display, before someone who cannot perceive the world visually?
「常好奇,这个过于光亮的城市,在他心里是甚麽模样。对于不以视觉感知世界的人,这城市还能够炫耀甚麽?」
pompousness[ noun ]
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
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Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See {Pomp}.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. ``Pompous in high
presumption.'' --Chaucer.
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
※ -- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness},
n.