| 英语单词 | gloat |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ɡləʊt] 美 [ɡloʊt] |
| 中文释义 | v.满足地看;沾沾自喜;幸灾乐祸 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Chinese leaders have another reason not to gloat over the KMT's victory. (2) Stop gloating just because you won the game! (3) A friend is someone to gloat with during the good times. (4) It's nothing to gloat about. (5) I will not gloat over my enemies' predicatment before killing them. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 中国领导人亦有其他理由不去满足国民党的选举胜利。 (2) 别因为赢了就扬扬得意! (3) 朋友是你得意时和你分享快乐的人. (4) 没有什麽可幸灾乐祸的。 (5) 当我的敌人陷入困境,在我杀了他们之前,我不会幸灾乐祸. |
| vocabulary简明 | If you gloat, you express great satisfaction at the misfortune of others. If your team scores a big win, it would be better not to gloat. Be happy for your win, but don't laugh at their loss. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Gloat seems have come from a Germanic word meaning "to stare." Somehow people may have gotten the sense that whoever was doing the staring was also taking a deep and unwholesome pleasure in whatever he or she was seeing. Think about people staring and pointing and laughing. Sometimes you gloat when someone has rejected the help you have offered. If your little sister won't listen to your advice on how to improve her essay and then comes home with a bad grade, it will be very hard not to gloat and say "I told you so." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]洋洋得意;幸灾乐祸 If someone is gloating, they are showing pleasure at their own success or at other people's failure in an arrogant and unpleasant way. [V [Also V] [disapproval]
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