bravado

How much of this is bravado, how much rumour and how much fact is hard to say.

很难说得清楚，这话里面有多少是夸夸其谈，有多少是谣传，又有多少是实际情况。

Private Rangel was not a sergeant, but he had an air about him, a mixture of bravado and charisma, that made people think he was.

兰格尔并非长官，但他有种混合着故作勇敢和领袖魅力的气场使战友们认为他就是长官。

She took a Lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.

她姘识了一个汉子，一个不相干、她不爱的人，那完全是出自心中的愤懑和存心要胡作非为。

She put it back, and proceeded to get dinner early and in good time. Her little bravado made her feel as if she ought to make amends.

她把钱放回钱包，就去早早准备晚饭，以便按时开饭。她这样闹了一下之后，觉得自己似乎应该作些补偿。

You'll need a little kitchen bravado to try some of these, but you'll also need to be plagued with a healthy weakness for chocolate.

你需要一个小厨房来随意的尝试这些东西，但是你也可被对巧克力的健康的弱点所烦扰。

With a bit of bravado, the old gang hung out their new shingle: the Prediction Company.

虽然带着那么一点虚张声势的味道，但这伙子旧匪还是把他们的新招牌给挂了出来：预测公司。

I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.

我那时喜欢把自己看作是一个大人，但惊恐慌乱就像一条饥肠辘辘的食人鱼吞食猎物一般，渐渐攻破了我的虚张声势。

Listen, it may have been bravado, Norman grandstanding to me that he spotted a genius early on.

听着，这可能有点夸张，诺曼向我吹嘘他一早就发现了这个天才。

Whatever the dent to national bravado, or to the free-enterprise ideology, the phrase "too big to fail" suddenly carried an American accent.

无论会对国民虚张的声势，还是对自由企业这一意识形态造成什么样的创伤，“太庞大了，不能破产”这句话突然间带上了点美国口音。

He was lightly afoot again, turned and waved his cap in a bravado, and was out of sight next moment in the margin of the wood.

接着他又轻巧地站了起来，转过身子，示威似的挥着帽子，一下子就在森林的边缘上消失了。

The Frontline Club in London has long been where foreign correspondents gather to swap boozy stories about far-flung adventures and bravado.

在伦敦前线俱乐部一直在外国记者聚集一堂，交换有关遥远的冒险和虚张声势boozy故事。

The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.

这个年轻的罪犯，在受到他残暴袭击的受害者出来跟他对质时，他那虚张声势的嚣张气焰不见了。

He wears the blue blazer and tan chinos of an academic but has the bravado of a heavyweight who used to box for the marines.

他穿著大学校园里常见的鲜蓝色休閒上衣搭配棕色斜纹裤，却带著某种曾经身为海军陆战队重量级拳击手的蛮劲。

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N. Y. ), one of the loudest prognosticators of a coming shut down, followed with bravado.

参议员舒默（DN.Y.），也是预言政府关闭最响亮的一个人，他随后便销声匿迹了。

He was first into the sea, and at once swam out with the bravado of justifying his self-given reputation.

他第一个下海，立刻施展本领游了出去，要证明自己夸下的海口。

I was intrigued by his bravado, but I think the film captures a change in his personality.

我被他的英勇深深地吸引，但我认为这部电影捕捉到了他性格的改变。

That's clearly the sign of a player who would rather not deal with his defender, so on this night, DeShawn's bravado paid off.

当然一个球员的气势也许对他的防守者也许并不奏效，这天晚上斯蒂文森的表现就是最好的例证。

She swayed the knife in her hand. It was just an act of bravado.

她挥舞手中的刀只是为了虚张声势。

For all the bravado, the Lakers can be careless, a team with holes and an inability to finish off an opponent as a champion must.

对于一切的虚张声势，湖人可以不在乎，因为他们认为一个已经陷入困境的球队是不可能击败他们几乎已经是总冠军的对手的。

Despite the bravado, Mr. Prokhorov's latest ambitions seem at least partly in line with the Kremlin's plans.

虽有这番声势，但普罗霍罗夫的最新宏愿似乎至少有一部分与克里姆林宫的计划一致。