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1 “There were so many lessons in the vaunted Code of Harry — twisted commandments handed down from the only God I’ve ever worshiped,” as Dexter put it.

2 But here its vaunted adorableness is wisely deflated by the unsavory company it keeps — a George Bellows slugfest hangs behind it.

3 The trend raises the possibility that ABC can seriously threaten NBC's vaunted winning streak, which would be huge psychologically and financially for NBC.

4 Was it perhaps because of the energy devoted — admirably — to vaunting its low eco footprint?

5 Not the most efficient gun play by two deputy marshals vaunted for their gun skills, but everyone has an off day.

6 But maybe Davis’s vaunted 192 shots say it best after all: they suggest someone both acting out a kind of immortality and demonstrating an unmistakable death wish.

7 The former Beatles considered the book to be an unforgivable betrayal on Brown’s part, especially given his once vaunted place in their inner circle.

8 For Ms. Justice, the journey to that vaunted spot has literally encompassed most of her young life.

9 Rwanda’s much vaunted current success grew out of the extraordinary effort of all Rwandans to combine justice with reconciliation.

10 By midday the tropical sun had broken through, allowing them to take advantage of the vaunted climate.

11 Even the vaunted “C-suite” job is cold comfort when it cost you hours with a lost loved one.

12 First, Lagerfeld is the last person to look back or to vaunt his past achievements.

13 They are the most effective of several works here vaunting a political edge.

14 The death of Asaad, in the meantime, represents the silencing of one of the ruins' most vaunted defenders.

15 As a lifelong soccer fan, his mind went straight to Manchester — home of the vaunted Manchester United and the Premier League’s current juggernaut, Manchester City.

16 For Madame Chiang, Acheson’s stand was an American betrayal not only of a loyal ally, but also of its own vaunted principles of freedom and democracy.

17 But over the course of the 20th century, “classical music” came to mean something quite different — a fixed repertoire of established works played again and again, vaunted as timeless, universal and superior to “popular music.”

18 Speaking of gifts: This weekend marked the fifth time that Emma Stone has hosted “S.N.L.” which meant that she could now be inducted into the show’s vaunted Five-Timers Club and receive her ceremonial jacket.

19 He vaunts aloud that “his blacks” in South Africa are well fed and materially better off under the chains of apartheid than their liberated brothers and sisters in the rest of Africa.

20 All of a sudden, investors are expecting extremely rapid earnings growth from four already huge, mature companies—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon—and incredibly fast growth from Nvidia based on vaunting hopes for A.I. The hopes, and the prices, are just too high.

1 宣扬

publicity blazon preach air enhance blow advertise blaze flaunt delate vaunt courier

2 夸耀

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3 夸张

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4 吹嚧

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5 自负

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6 吹牛

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7 大言

bombast

8 矜夸

uppish

9 称扬

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10 吹嘘

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11 炫耀

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12 大话

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13 自吹自擂

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14 自夸

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