n. 夸大的言辞

[ noun ]
pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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Bombast \Bom"bast\, a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
bombastic.

[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak.

Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley.


Bombast \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]

Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
--Drayton.


Bombast \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n.
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet
of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
{Bombazine}.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]

A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.

2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]

How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.

Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
bombast at least. --Stubbes.

3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language
above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.