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vaunted

/vawn-tid, vahn-/US // ˈvɔn tɪd, ˈvɑn- //

夸张的,华贵的,夸耀,华贵

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : praised boastfully or excessively: the vaunted beauties of Paris.

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Examples

  • In San Quentin’s vaunted coding program, Code 7370, offered through the prison education organization The Last Mile, hand-selected prisoners build and sell actual websites for commercial use.

  • Mohamed Mire, a coworker of Hamilton’s, explains that most of Amazon’s vaunted technology goes to tracking the workers rather than making the work efficient.

  • In creating a direct and meaningful career pathway for young adults, they can help businesses close skills gaps and hit their much-vaunted diversity targets.

  • That’s the vaunted “5 Big Moves” plan, subject of high-profile hype and criticism.

  • The Texas software billionaire, who has never appeared on Forbes’ vaunted list of the wealthiest Americans, is allegedly responsible for the largest tax fraud in US history.

  • This much-vaunted turnout operation turns out not to have deserved much vaunt.

  • Well, this is definitely a besmirchment of the much-vaunted clean slate.

  • Plucky Costa Rica upsets vaunted Uruguay, as Italy outsmarts England.

  • It also takes, as Saldana herself tells me, “some big cajones” to dare even try to bring the vaunted property to the small screen.

  • There also appears to be some confusion with regard to the actual contents of the vaunted agreement.

  • Death, to do him justice, he had met with none of the cowardice he had vaunted, and consistently with his arid cynical soul.

  • For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.

  • Finot's journal vaunted her hats, for a pecuniary consideration, and derogated those of Virginie, formerly praised.

  • When the old Ptolemaic system was exploded by Copernicus, the vaunted wisdom of men proclaimed that the Bible also was exploded.

  • Still here was opportunity for displaying that vaunted courage of the all-conquering white before one of the defeated.