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pomp

/pomp/US // pɒmp //UK // (pɒmp) //

奢华,夸张,奢靡,壮观

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.
    • : ostentatious or vain display, especially of dignity or importance.
    • : pomps, pompous displays, actions, or things: The official was accompanied by all the pomps of his high position.
    • : Archaic. a stately or splendid procession; pageant.

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Examples

  • Finding a way to gather in May for the pomp and circumstance of graduation ceremonies proved yet another challenge.

  • Still, that same equalizing effect also serves to highlight the relative absurdity of building up so much importance, so much pomp and hyperbole, over awards shows in the first place.

  • Typically, Mars landings are cause for great pomp and circumstance at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

  • You watch enough of these inaugurations and you think there’s nothing left to impress you in the pomp and the circumstance.

  • If a product is beautiful, why do you need all that pomp and circumstance?

  • Instead, there was a high school band striking up the Elgar march “Pomp and Circumstance.”

  • A glittering spectacle of British pomp and majesty it may be, but the clothes are rather tight, and the room is somewhat airless.

  • Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial.

  • We still seem driven by hype, by illusory health scares and benefits, by pomp, by the new and trendy, than by taste.

  • They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

  • The date was fixed for the interment with military pomp, and immense crowds came out to witness the imposing procession.

  • The Cardinals started for the north, 'as the manner of the Romans is,' with great pomp and circumstance.

  • If he has painted vice and shown Satan in all his pomp, it is without the least complacence in the task.

  • All this pomp and circumstance was in their eyes no other than a distinctive mark of paganism.