gloat

英 [ɡləʊt]

美 [ɡloʊt]

v.  扬扬得意; 沾沾自喜; 幸灾乐祸

现在分词：gloating　过去式：gloated　第三人称单数：gloats　过去分词：gloated　复数：gloats　

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牛津词典

verb

• 扬扬得意；沾沾自喜；幸灾乐祸
  to show that you are happy about your own success or sb else's failure, in an unpleasant way
  1. She was still gloating over her rival's disappointment.
     她仍在为对手的失望而幸灾乐祸。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 洋洋得意；幸灾乐祸
  If someoneis gloating, they are showing pleasure at their own success or at other people's failure in an arrogant and unpleasant way.
  1. Anti-abortionists are gloating over the court's decision...
     法庭的判决让反堕胎主义者非常得意。
  2. This is nothing to gloat about.
     这没什么好幸灾乐祸的。

英英释义

noun

• malicious satisfaction
  Synonym:gloatingglee

verb

• dwell on with satisfaction
  Synonym:triumphcrow
• gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy

双语例句

• Don't gloat just because your guy won.
  别因为你的人赢了就得意洋洋。
• Don't you think it's a little unkind to gloat over your competitor's failure?
  你难道不认为对你对手的失败幸灾乐祸是有点不近人情吗？
• I know I shouldn't gloat, but it really serves him right.
  我知道我不该幸灾乐祸，但他确实活该。
• Jim likes to gloat over all the sports prizes he has own, which he keeps in a glass case.
  吉姆喜欢得意地欣赏他自己在历次运动会上所获得的奖品，他把这些奖品存放在一个玻璃柜里。
• But advocates of competing biofuel and electric vehicles should not gloat as they are not prevailing on technological or environmental merit.
  然而，生物燃料汽车和电动汽车（氢燃料汽车的竞争对手）的支持者不应幸灾乐祸，因为这两类汽车并不具备技术和环保优势。
• We are desperate to find out news of home. In reality we want to gloat, I mean share, this experience.
  我们急切地盼望得到家中消息，但实际上也是想炫示炫示，我指的是想让他们分享我们此刻的感受。
• Vindicate me in your righteousness, O Lord my god; do not let them gloat over me.
  耶和华我的上帝啊，求你按你的公义判断我，不容他们向我夸耀！
• He hadn't come there to gloat.
  他没有去那里幸灾乐祸。
• -the horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it?
  竟然把一颗病弱和犯罪的心暴露给幸灾乐祸地注视着的眼睛，丑得有多可怕啊！
• Come to gloat is more like it.
  应该是来表示祝贺的吧。