阔气英语怎么说
It was strange to see him, after all these years, here on the platform of Euston, looking so prosperous and solid.
University students should have the resolve to live a frugal lifestyle and should not try to keep up with the Joneses or follow trends and fads .
The forming condition of crystal and closed pore in tabular alundum produced with electric melting is estimated and determined theoretically.
She dressed down to visit her poor relatives, so as not to offend them by a show of her wealth.
Our new neighbour is always flinging his money about, with his colour television and his new car every year.
I see that they have bought a house in the country. I suppose they 're trying to keep up with the joneses.
Some local governments are competing with one another for lavishness and spend money hand over foot, arousing strong public resentment.
And he was so very free of the wine that he even called for the other bottle, and handed that about with the same liberality, when the first was gone.
On the north side of the street stood a relatively well-to-do villager's house. It had a tiled building in the back, but just a lattice door in front, with no proper gate and no gatehouse.
Riding here in the powerful car with this white man who was so pleased with what he called his fate, I felt a sense of dread.
The bureaucrats of Brussels do not enjoy the same public esteem as the sleek administrators of Paris, but they are well rewarded in other ways.
You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle.
Pierpont morgan, perhaps the most flamboyant of the entrepreneurs, operated on a scale of magnificence .
Boundless like sky and sea, if broad-minded are we, tranquil and marvelous life will be.
He has lost a lot of money recently but still keeps up appearances.
My mother colluded in the myth of him as the swanky businessman.
This girl likes to put on the dog.
But this year the Spanish champions will be offering less, not more.
He had many an anecdote of the gilded youth of his time.
But he liked to impress his fellow workers.
Her friends egged on Mabel to spend money to show off.
He keeps rooting for a nice expensive vacation.
I suppose they're trying to keep up with the Joneses.
He stays in the swankiest hotels.
My parents sent me to a fancy private school.