high-sounding

adj.

1. 夸张的；高调的
   complicated and intended to sound important

1. ADJ-GRADED 听起来冠冕堂皇的;虚夸的
   You can use high-sounding to describe language and ideas which seem very grand and important, especially when you think they are not really important.
   1. ...high-sounding decrees designed to impress foreigners and attract foreign capital.
      意在打动外国人以吸引外资的华而不实的法令

1. He still loves high-sounding phrases which may mean everything possible or nothing at all.
   他至今仍然喜欢那些包罗万象而又空洞无物的响亮词句。
2. What's the point of simply paying lip service? or high-sounding words are no use.
   光说得漂亮有什么用？
3. Many-a-times people have ended up using high-sounding words inappropriately only to face public embarrassment.
   很多时候在公众场合由于用词不当，最后只有直面尴尬。
4. Give him praise with the loud brass: give him praise with the high-sounding brass.
   用大响的钹赞美他，用高声的钹赞美他。
5. Of course, these developers are talking about high-sounding manner to make contributions to urban construction.
   当然，这些开发者们谈论冠冕堂皇的方式作出贡献的城市建设。
6. The politician's speech was full of high-sounding words.
   这位政客的演说满是高谈阔论。
7. I would like to, no one will answer so naive, so high-sounding reasons.
   我想，没有人会再回答出那么天真、那么冠冕堂皇的理由了。
8. Jack filled his son with many high-sounding ideas about life.
   杰克给他儿子灌输了许多有关生活的思想都是唱高调。
9. He is fond of using high-sounding phrases.
   他爱用夸大的词句。
10. If we follow the Path patiently and with diligence, train and purify ourselves one day realize it within ourselves-without taxing ourselves with puzzling and high-sounding words.
    如果我们耐心而勤奋地追随这条道路，训练和净化自己，也许有一天会在我们自我之中找到它，而不必用困惑和高调的词汇来指责自己。
11. High-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful.
    听来很高调的阐释可以加诸其上，而是因为它们有用。
12. I have knowledge of his wrath, says the lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.
    耶和华说，我知道他的忿怒是虚空的。他夸大的话一无所成。
13. No high-sounding rhetoric, just want to take action to achieve an attainable aspiration.
    没有冠冕堂皇的说辞，只是想以行动，去实现一个可以实现的愿望。
14. -With your permission, my lord. He is fond of using high-sounding phrases.
    -请允许我说一句，大人他爱用夸大的词句。
15. This means you're talking high-sounding words or bushwa.
    唱高调就是说大话或者说空话。
16. He used volumes of high-sounding words to disguise himself in order to deceive the people.
    他用大量动听的言辞来伪装自己，欺骗人民。
17. The media infringe upon those celebrities 'privacy for circulation and rating, but make the high-sounding excuse that the audience should know what has happened.
    媒体为发行量和收视率侵犯名人隐私，却又以受众的知情权作为冠冕堂皇的借口；
18. He tagged a high-sounding title to his name.
    他在自己的姓名前加上了一个显赫的头衔。
19. The deployment of a high-sounding, honeyed, provocative methods to destroy humans'multifaceted nature involves contemporary culture's butchery.
    借以“创造生活”这个冠冕堂皇、美丽的动听、具有极其扇动方式来毁灭人性多重性，这就是当下文化的的屠杀。

adj

1. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
   1. high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school
   2. a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution

   Synonym:    high-flowninflated