Word of the Day : September 3, 2021
gasconade
自夸；自吹
noun gas-kuh-NAYD
What It Means
Gasconade is confident talk or behavior that is intended to impress other people.
Gasconade 是一种谈话自信或行为自信，旨在给其他人留下深刻印象。
Examples
After all his gasconade, the contestant couldn't manage to complete the obstacle race.
那位选手自吹后，还是没能完成障碍赛。
"His malevolence was only equalled by his audacity,—and this was, if possible, surpassed by his gasconade." — Nathaniel Pitt Langford, Vigilante Days and Ways, 1996
“他的恶毒只能与他的自夸（自负）相媲美，而这一点而言，（如果可能）可能超过他的自夸（自负）”
Did You Know?
The citizens of Gascony in southwestern France have proverbially been regarded as prone to bragging. Their reputation has been immortalized in such swashbuckling literary works as Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. Linguistically, the legend survives in the word gascon, meaning "a swaggering person" or "braggart," as well as in gasconade itself.
众所周知，法国西南部加斯科尼的公民被公认为很爱吹牛。他们的名声在大仲马的《三个火枪手》和埃德蒙·罗斯坦德的《西拉诺·德·贝热拉克》等 such swashbuckling literary works 「有传奇历险情节的文学作品？」永存。从语言上讲，这个传说在gascon这个词中幸存下来，意思是“a swaggering person「狂妄的人」”或“braggart「吹牛的人」”，以及gasconade本身。
Quiz
What does fanfaronade mean?
fanfaronade「吹牛」