swank

英 [sw??k] 美[sw??k]

英英釋義實用場景例句

近義詞dashing

暢通詞匯GRE

第三人稱單數:?swanks;過去式:?swanked;過去分詞:?swanked;現在分詞:?swanking;

1. 天鵝小姐愛打扮。

swank 炫耀，賣弄

來自輔音叢 sw-,彎，轉，搖擺，搖晃，比較 swing,sway,sweep,swipe.引申比喻義炫耀，賣弄。

swank (adj.): "stylish, classy, posh," 1913, from earlier noun or verb; "A midland and s.w. dial. word taken into general slang use at the beginning of the 20th cent." [OED]; compare swank (n.) "ostentatious behavior," noted in 1854 as a Northampton word; swank (v.), from 1809 as "to strut, behave ostentatiously." Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swank-, from PIE *sweng(w)-, a Germanic root meaning "to swing, turn, toss" (cognates: Middle High German swanken "to sway, totter, turn, swing," Old High German swingan "to swing;" see swing (v.)). Perhaps the notion is of "swinging" the body ostentatiously (compare swagger).

A separate word-thread derives from Old English swancor "pliant, bending," and from this comes swanky (n.) "active or clever young fellow" (c. 1500).

2. It was Swank's judgment that he had become irrelevant.: 斯旺克的評價是,此人已無足輕重了.

4. Swank as well as I still hoped that perhaps they had not shown their hand completely.: 斯旺克和我仍抱希望,也許他們還沒有完全亮出他們的牌.

5. Swank was born in Washington State, or perhaps Nebraska.: 斯萬卡出生于華盛頓州, 或者可能是內布拉斯加州.