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sententious

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英 [senˈtenʃəs]
美 [sɛnˈtɛnʃəs]
是什么意思
  • adj.

    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

    学习怎么用

    双语例句

    用作形容词(adj.)
    1. 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 Friendship
    A sententious divide: Erasing the two faces of liberalism
    Sense and sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare
    Sententiousness and the novel laying down the law in eighteenth-century French fiction
    Tacitus the Sententious Historian: A Sociology of Rhetoric in "Annales"1-6
    Sense and Sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare : Wittgenstein Reading
    Morality Ovidized: Sententiousness and the Aphoristic Moment in the Nun's Priest's Tale
    Classification of proverbs and sententious saysings selected from the plays of Plautus and Terence ...
    Horace, Seneca, and Martial: ‘Sententious Style’ across Genres: Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations