2019年4月13日 星期六

gasconade, bravado, bravo, jilt

Ecuadorian officials described Julian Assange as an intolerable tenant at its London embassy, accusing him of blocking security cameras, mistreating guards and once spreading feces on the walls.




Is Berlin losing patience with Britain's Brexit bravado?

 When Jim was still an obscure young lawyer, struggling to make his way in New York, his career was suddenly advanced by a brilliant marriage. Genevieve Whitney was the only daughter of a distinguished man. Her marriage with young Burden was the subject of sharp comment at the time. It was said she had been brutally jilted by her cousin, Rutland Whitney, and that she married this unknown man from the West out of bravado.
bravado. bravo

Paul Fortin of Gecamines dismisses that argument as "rubbish", because it ignores continuing production costs and interest repayments.
"Without the Chinese," he adds - pointing to the disused Kolwezi mine - "all this will be just be scenery."
There's no doubt about Beijing's bravado. But until the deal can be properly scrutinised, the doubts will continue.



bravo 
exclamation
used to express your pleasure when someone, especially a performer, has done something well



gasconade (gas-kuh-NAYD)

noun: Boastful talk.
verb intr.: To boast extravagantly.

Etymology
From French gasconnade, from gasconner (to boast), after Gascon, a native of the Gascony region in France. First recorded use: 1709.

Notes
Were people from Gascony full of boast and bravado? Not necessarily. Historical rivalries lead one people to generalize others' names as having some shortcoming and some of those names become part of the language. Other examples of such words are solecism solecism, Boeotian, and fescennine.

Usage
"Stanley Hauerwas's explanation is not appreciated in an era of instant broadcast and electronic gasconade." — Irony at UVa; The Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia); Aug 2, 2010.


bravado 
noun [U] ━━ n. (pl. ~(e)s) 虚勢.
a show of bravery, especially when unnecessary and dangerous, to make people admire you:
It was an act of bravado that made him ask his boss to resign.
  
bravado

 (brə-vä') pronunciation
n., pl., -dos, or -does.
    1. Defiant or swaggering behavior: strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.
    2. A pretense of courage; a false show of bravery.
  1. A disposition toward showy defiance or false expressions of courage.
[French bravade and Old Spanish bravada, swagger, bravery, both ultimately from Vulgar Latin *brabus, brave. See brave.]

  • 発音記号[brəvɑ'ːdou][名](複〜es, 〜s)[U][C]からいばり, 虚勢
out of bravado
強いところを見せようとして.
[スペイン語←イタリア語bravada(brav勇敢な+-ADE行為を示す語尾). 本来はよい意味であった]


jilt[jilt]

  • 発音記号[dʒílt][動](他)〈恋人を〉(突然または冷酷に)振る, 捨てる.
━━[名]男たらし, 浮気女.

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