boast

• Levchenko was no position to evaluate this claim, and he wondered if it were merely a bureaucratic boast .
  列夫钦科无法证实这种说法是否正确，他怀疑这是吹牛。
• She went on, boasting of her quietness, yet speaking with a kind of contained exaltation .
  她滔滔不绝地说着。她自诩很平静，她的口气却包含着一种强自抑制的兴奋情绪。
• In spite of his brag and boast to the contrary, he was too young as yet for women's society .
  尽管他大言不惭，自吹自擂，事实恰好相反，他还太年轻，得不到女人的欢心。
• The boasts were made in secret but the military moves that expressed these ambitions were plain to seen .
  牛皮是秘密吹的，但表现这种狼子野心的军事行动是有目共睹的。
• Did you ever try to excite his jealousy by boasting of a lover so far above you in station ?
  你究竟有没有对他夸说过有这样一位身价地位比你高得多的情人，用来引起他的嫉妒？
• They boasted about it and assumed as much swagger in their gait as their broken boots permitted .
  他们为这件事大吹大擂，并且在他们破靴子许可的条件下，大摇大摆，高视阔步。
• Now the lookalofts would boast that their aspirations has been sanctioned by the gentry of the country .
  如今，卢卡洛夫特家就会夸口说，他们的抱负得到了当地上流社会的认可。
• It is all very fine to blow and boast beforehand, but now it's done, alan, and who's to bear the blame of it ?
  预先吹吹牛，放放炮倒是不错，可是现在事情干出来了，艾伦，谁来背这个黑锅呢？