1·But they do know that, three and a half years after apparent boasts of victory, there are still a lot of American troops in Iraq, and the place looks an utter mess on the evening news.
但他们当然知道,表面上夸耀胜利之后三年半,依然有许多美军留驻伊拉克,从晚间新闻看到的那个地方完全是一团糟。
2·SUMO boasts 82 kimarite, or techniques, to take down an opponent.
相扑运动夸耀他的“大相扑82技”,来战胜对手。
3·It is now squeaky clean and even boasts a new roof.
现在这里干干净净,甚至有了一个值得夸耀的新屋顶。
4·Its store in Shenzhen boasts elegant wooden floors and exotic imported foods. Sales are rising by 40% a year.
其在深圳的商场铺上了值得夸耀的上等木地板,配以进口的异国食品,使得一年内销售额上升了40%。
5·"This is the most clean kitchen in Bamiyan," she boasts in heavily accented English, as she directs her staff of Afghan assistants in fluent Dari.
“这里是巴米扬最清洁的厨房,”老板Hiromi Yasui用口音很重的英语夸耀说,她同时用流利的达里语差遣着她的阿富汗助手。
1·Bombastic boasts - "We are positioned to become the preeminent provider of XYZ" -do not constitute a position.
言过其实的自夸——“我们定位于成为XYZ的卓越供应商”——并不能构建其地位。
2·Though he did not say when it would reach that mark, the prediction was not greeted with the skepticism that had met his previous boasts of fast growth.
尽管他没说何时将到达这一数字,但这一预测并未像其在先前自夸快速增长时那般遭到质疑。
3·The absurdly heroic boasts on Chuck Norris Facts may be affectionate, but will anyone take him seriously again?
《关于查克·诺里斯的事实》里面荒谬的英雄主义自夸可能看来亲切,但是谁还会再把他当回事?
4·It comes nearer to the engines with which man has' conquered 'the air, as he boasts.
它更近乎于人类自夸的“征服”了空气的发动机。
5·It's no good, it's no good! "says the buyer; then off he goes and boasts about his purchase."
买物的说:“不好,不好!”及至买去,他便自夸。