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showing off

/shoh/US // ʃoʊ //UK // (ʃəʊ) //

炫耀,炫耀性,炫耀的,炫耀着

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pageant选美,选美比赛,选拔赛,选美活动parade巡游,巡行,巡展,巡游活动fair公平,公正,公平的,公正的appearance外观,外貌,样子,外观设计program节目,程序,方案,程式spectacle壮观的景象,壮观的场面,景观,场景presentation介绍,演示文稿,演讲,演讲稿display展示,展示的,展示的是picture图片,照片,画面,图画play播放,游戏,玩,玩耍movie电影drama戏剧,戲劇,话剧,戏剧性production生产,产量,制作,产act行动,行为,采取行动,扮演comedy喜剧,滑稽剧,喜剧片,笑话film电影exhibit展览,展品,展出,展现reveal揭示,揭露,显露,揭示的sell出售,销售,卖,售卖offer提供,提议,优惠,提价

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    showed, shown or showed, show·ing.

    • : to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
    • : to present or perform as a public entertainment or spectacle: to show a movie.
    • : to indicate; point out: to show the way.
    • : to guide, escort, or usher: He showed me to my room. Show her in.
    • : to explain or make clear; make known: He showed what he meant.
    • : to make known to; inform, instruct, or prove to: I'll show you what I mean.
    • : to prove; demonstrate: His experiment showed the falsity of the theory.
    • : to indicate, register, or mark: The thermometer showed 10 below zero.
    • : to exhibit or offer for sale: to show a house.
    • : to allege, as in a legal document; plead, as a reason or cause.
    • : to produce, as facts in an affidavit or at a hearing.
    • : to express or make evident by appearance, behavior, speech, etc.: to show one's feelings.
    • : to accord or grant: He showed mercy in his decision.
v.无主动词 verb
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    showed, shown or showed, show·ing.

    • : to be seen; be or become visible: Does my slip show?
    • : to be seen in a certain way: to show to advantage.
    • : to put on an exhibition or performance; display one's goods or products: Several dress designers are showing in New York now.
    • : Informal. to be present or keep an appointment; show up: He said he would be there, but he didn't show.
    • : to finish third in a horse race, harness race, etc.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a theatrical production, performance, or company: We’d like to catch a Broadway show while we’re in the city!
    • : a radio or television program: The show is on Tuesdays at 8:00.
    • : a movie: Grab a popcorn and a drink before the show starts.
    • : an exposition for dealers or the public of products by various manufacturers in a particular industry, usually held in an exhibition hall, convention facility, or the like: the annual boat show.
    • : any kind of public exhibition or exposition: a show of Renoirs.
    • : ostentatious display: nothing but mere show.
    • : a display, exhibition, or demonstration: a true show of freedom.
    • : an indication; trace: He frowned on the slightest show of emotion.
    • : the position of the competitor who comes in third in a horse race, harness race, etc.Compare place, win.
    • : appearance; impression: to make a sorry show.
    • : a sight or spectacle.
    • : an unreal or deceptive appearance: The actress's tears had the show of grief.
    • : an act or instance of showing.
    • : Informal. a chance: to get a fair show.
    • : Medicine/Medical. the first appearance of blood at the onset of menstruation.a blood-tinged mucous discharge from the vagina that indicates the onset of labor.
    • : Chiefly British Informal. any undertaking, group of persons, event, etc.; affair; thing.
  1. 1
    • : show off, to display ostentatiously: The parade was designed to show off all the latest weapons of war.to seek to gain attention by displaying prominently one's abilities or accomplishments.
    • : show up, to make known, as faults; expose; reveal.to exhibit in a certain way; appear: White shows up well against a blue background.to come to or arrive at a place: We waited for two hours, but he didn't show up.to make seem inferior; outdo.

Phrases

  • show and tell
  • show must go on, the
  • show off
  • show of hands
  • show one's colors
  • show one's face
  • show one's hand
  • show one's heels
  • show one's teeth
  • show one's true colors
  • show signs of
  • show someone the door
  • show someone the ropes
  • show someone a good time
  • show someone out
  • show the way
  • show the white feather
  • show to advantage
  • show up
  • bare (show) one's teeth
  • dog-and-pony show
  • false colors, show
  • for show
  • get the show on the road
  • go to show
  • know (show) the ropes
  • one-man show
  • road show
  • run the show
  • steal the show
  • (show one's) true colors

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbflaunt; brag
Synonyms
advertise宣传,做广告,登广告,做宣传boast夸口说,夸耀,夸夸其谈,夸口brandish烙印,品牌,烙画,挥舞demonstrate展示,显示,示范,显示出display展示,展示的,展示的是disport弃权,弃婴,弃置,弃儿exhibit展览,展品,展出,展现expose揭发,揭露,暴露,揭穿flash闪光,闪存,闪现,闪电hand a line交行,牵线,牵线搭桥,递上一行make a spectacle of大闹天宫,卖弄风骚,闹场,卖弄风情parade巡游,巡行,巡展,巡游活动spread out铺开,摊开,铺展,展开swagger挥洒自如,挥斥方遒,摇摆不定trot out奔走相告,奔跑起来

Examples

  • Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.

  • As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.

  • And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.

  • Not actual CIA agents, but U.S. government personnel who have worked very closely with the CIA, and who are fans of the show.

  • Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

  • None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.

  • I shall show how it is possible thus to prolong life to the term set by God.

  • Not only do children thus of themselves extend the scope of our commands, they show a disposition to make rules for themselves.

  • He called upon the Order to show their title-deeds, but was met with a contemptuous refusal.

  • If any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.

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