swank

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※ 提供单词"swank"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

swank 炫耀，卖弄

来自辅音丛 sw-,弯，转，摇摆，摇晃，比较 swing,sway,sweep,swipe.引申比喻义炫耀，卖弄。

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).

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2. It was Swank's judgment that he had become irrelevant.: 斯旺克的评价是,此人已无足轻重了.

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,也许他们还没有完全亮出他们的牌.

5. Swank was born in Washington State, or perhaps Nebraska.: 斯万卡出生于华盛顿州, 或者可能是内布拉斯加州.