吹嘘

A Lydian maid, Arcane by name, did not seem to think much of Athena' s skill, for she frequently talked big that she could beat the goddess if she had the chance to do so.

一位名叫阿瑞克妮的莉迪亚族少女，似乎瞧不起雅典娜的本领，并常吹嘘如有机会定能击败女神雅典娜。

A Lydian maid, Arachne by name, not seem did to think much of Athena's skill, she frequently talked big that she could beat the goddess if she had the for chance to do so.

一位名叫阿瑞克妮的莉迪亚族少女，似乎瞧不起雅典娜的本领，并常吹嘘如有机会定能击败女神雅典娜。

He has boasted of them in Macedonia that they began before others.

他吹嘘，他们在马其顿，他们之前就开始等。

Ever since he met Paul McCartney at a party, he's been dining out on the story.

自从他在一个聚会上遇见保罗·麦卡尼后，他就一直拿这件事来吹嘘。

In fact, it was as a consequence of field research in the Medoc that I came to understand how important culture is, viewed as lived social interactions, the symbolic and the contested, to both the construction and reproduction of the political economy of winegrowing.6 That is, differences in climate and soil can be invoked rhetorically to c6nceal the cultural and historical construction of class privilege or, in Roger Keesing's sense of mimesis (I992), subordinate populations can reproduce the very logic and hegemonic discourse of their privileged counterparts.

实际上，借助 Medoc野外研究的结果，通过社会相互作用、象征与竞争，乃至葡萄种植业的政治经济的建设与再生产，我懂得文化的重要性。即气候和土壤的差异，被夸大的吹嘘以至于隐藏起等级特权的文化与历史建设的作用，在罗杰基辛（1992）模拟的感觉里，人能与他们的特权对手重建非常逻辑和霸权的对话。

He intends to bring suit against them for misrepresent ing the merchandise they sold him.

他打算告发他们把货物卖给他时作虚伪不实的吹嘘。

I read that book, not modesty and boasted that this book is really good for me.

我看了一点书的介绍，没有谦虚和吹嘘，这本书对我来说真的不错。

Bill the moocher, the best built man of us all, a Herculean sturdy beggar who smelt of beer even after twelve hours in the spike, told tales of mooching, of pints stood him in the boozers, and of a parson who had peached to the police and got him seven days.

二癞子比尔是这里面身体最壮的，模样像个巨灵神，在收容站呆了十二个小时之后，这家伙还是满嘴啤酒气，他吹嘘自己的光辉事迹，说某某某在酒馆请他喝了几品脱的啤酒，又说某某某把他告了官，警察押了他七天。

The speaker boasted that he would talk about the secret of becoming a successful man, but he actually made much ado about nothing.

演讲者吹嘘说他会谈论如何成为一位成功人士，但事实上他却是在无中生有。

Newham boasts approximately 300 government cameras located in strategic places and linked to Visionics ' FaceIt system.

纽汉吹嘘近300个政府照相机被安置在战略位置并连接到视力 Facelt 系统。

What are your goals and strategies for growth?

你的成长目标和策略是什么？

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven irits of God, and the seven star I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

3：1 你要写信给撒狄教会的使者，说，那有神的七灵和七星的，说，我知道你的行为，按名你是活的，其实是死的。