sententious
听听怎么读
英 [senˈtenʃəs]
美 [sɛnˈtɛnʃəs]
是什么意思
说教的;卖弄文采的,咬文嚼字的;爱用格言[警句]的;
英英释义
sententious[ sen'tenʃəs ]
- adj.
- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
"too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"
- concise and full of meaning
"the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"
同义词:pithy
- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
学习怎么用
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
- The document was too sententious and pompous.
这份文件过于说教式的,华而不实。
权威例句
Sententiousness in "Fuente Ovejuna"Sententious Theory in Spenser's Legend of FriendshipA sententious divide: Erasing the two faces of liberalismSense and sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, ShakespeareSententiousness and the novel laying down the law in eighteenth-century French fictionTacitus the Sententious Historian: A Sociology of Rhetoric in "Annales"1-6Sense and Sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare : Wittgenstein ReadingMorality Ovidized: Sententiousness and the Aphoristic Moment in the Nun's Priest's TaleClassification of proverbs and sententious saysings selected from the plays of Plautus and Terence ...Horace, Seneca, and Martial: ‘Sententious Style’ across Genres: Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations