vaporing

1 Yet Paul did not waste all his hours in this idle vaporing, nor in the pleasures of the table.

2 Whatever others thought of Siclone's vaporings, they counted for a good deal on the West End; nobody wanted trouble with him.

3 President Harry S. Truman described the art as “merely the vaporings of half-baked lazy people.”

4 You must not take the vaporings and bombast of the Paris Bourgeois or the ranting of Blanqui and the Belleville roughs as the voice of France.

5 But we were the weakest when Slavery made us so loud-mouthed and vaporing; we shall be strongest when the cause of our boasting has disappeared.

6 Protestant writers in the United States have long been kept in check by the bullying and vaporing of Popish priests, when some resolution and a little tact, might at all times have silenced them.

7 The bare idea of anybody on earth reading those insane vaporings sickened her.

8 A plague upon your idle vaporing, You vagabond!—D’ye fancy we don’t know you?

9 If such vaporings are legitimate, anything can be proved from the Scriptures.

10 Pretty and scented vaporings, most of the thousands and thousands of them, that have died on the air of the foibles of their day.

11 It could not be because Van Lennop had resented his patronage and his vaporings to any such extent as this; he was not that kind.

12 A cloud is a mass of vapor in the sky.

云是天空中的水汽团。

13 You were the man who trusted a nameless boy with five hundred pounds, because his vaporings amused you.

14 In later days the author threw what he probably supposed was the only existing manuscript of this vaporing effusion into the fire.

15 There is just as much empty vaporing there as there is down the Boulevards.

16 "I am not enamored of the vaporings of visionary and self-ordained preachers."

17 It was characteristic of Andrew's robust mind that, instead of wasting time in noisy vaporings and sentimental sorrow, it seized at once the weak point in the case.

18 Ralph, thy news has stirred me into vaporing, and the man who built the Orb mill is prating like a child.

19 In this way great injustice was done to the life and character of Robert Toombs, and Northern men who read these quaint sayings and redolent vaporings formed a distorted idea of the man.

20 They became very insolent and boastful, and would sharpen their knives and tomahawks upon the door-sills of the colonists, vaporing in mysterious phrase of the great deeds they were about to perform.

1 说大话

mouthy rodomontade buck gas pitch bounce bull blah rant gasconade squib draw the longbow draw the long bow shout the odds full of bull shoot the breeze shoot the bull shoot a line

2 夸张

magnisonant large heroic theatrical sounding flaming exaggerated rhetorical inflated grandiose overblown gassy stilted turgid stagy rhapsodic high-sounding grandiloquent highfalutin swoln magniloquent hifalutin highfaluting tumid exaggerative high-colored turgescent tumidly tall bombastically turgidly turgescence inflation rhetoric magnification exaggeration hyperbole puffiness overstatement grandiosity vaunt turgidity magniloquence turgidness tumidity exaggerate stretch magnify heighten overdo overstate overcharge overplay overdraw overshoot oneself bend a long bow bend the long bow draw a long bow draw the long bow pile it on put it on overdo it lay it on

3 夸大

large swollen inflated puffy grandiose hyperbolic bombastic vaulting bombast vaporous high-sounding high-flown plethoric magniloquent OTT megal- inflation borax tympany romance amplify exaggerate fudge aggrandize aggrandise put it on

4 说大话的

mouthy full of bull

5 吹嚧

vaunt

6 发出蒸汽的

vaporous

7 产生蒸气的

vaporific

8 蒸发的

evaporative

9 吹牛

windy bouncing quack Gascon charlatanic line-shoot gum-beating flamdoodle gas blow crack bull crap cracker eyewash braggadocio Munchausen blague charlatanism gasconade magniloquence cockalorum braggartism skite charlatanry fanfaronade jactation buck four-flush stretch pitch bounce brave romance vaporise rodomontade squib bulldog vaporize talk horse shoot off mouth shit for the birds tootle own kazoo draw the longbow draw the long bow crack jaw full of bull sling it shoot the breeze shoot the bull throw the hatchet shoot a line talk through hat mouthy magniloquent vaunt windiness talk tall bend a long bow bend the long bow draw a long bow talk big brag about

10 吹牛的

windy bouncing quack Gascon charlatanic full of bull mouthy rodomontade magniloquent

11 蒸发

evaporative vaporescence evaporation exhalation transpiration evaporate fume transpire exhale vaporize