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查询技巧:
1、输入单个单词准确查询。
2、使用%模糊查询,匹配任意长度字符:
   %a    以a结尾的单词;
   ab%    以ab开头的单词;
   %ac%    含有ac的单词。
3、使用_模糊查询,匹配单个任意字符:
   _a_    三位且a在中间的单词;
   _ad    三位且ad结尾的单词;
   ac_    三位且ac开头的单词;
   _a    两位且a结尾的单词;
   a_    两位且a开头的单词。
4、带连字符-的单词,需含-字符才能模糊查询,如well-know需输入 well-% 。
5、在手机键盘上,如果g上有%和v上有_,则可长按输入。

boasting
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英 / ˈbəʊstɪŋ /
美 / boʊstɪŋ /
v. 自夸;拥有(可以自豪的特点)(boast 的现在分词)

1. When the teacher left, two students who I often saw text in class started boasting about how they sent text messages and never got caught.
老师走后,两个经常在课堂上发短信的学生开始吹嘘自己是如何发短信,而且从来没有被抓到过。
2. There has been no boasting about our social workers—they are merely signs of the system's failure, of opportunity denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated.
没有人吹嘘我们的社会工作者——他们只是社会制度失败的标志,机会被剥夺或没有被抓住的标志,事物需要被淘汰的标志。
3. She is always boasting about how wonderful her children are.
她总是夸耀她的孩子们多么出色。
4. As a country boasting a vast territory and encompassing a large population, people in many places of China speak their own dialects.
中国幅员辽阔,人口众多,很多地方人们都说自己的方言。
5. While boasting annual box-office revenue increases for nine straight years, largely due to increased ticket prices, the number of actual tickets sold has declined for the second year in a row.
尽管连续九年每年票房收入快速增加,很大程度是因为票价上涨,实际销售的票数量在第二年是下降的。