OK, it seems like anyone can be guilty of peacocking these days.

好吧，现在似乎每个人都有吹嘘卖弄的时候。

So the paintings had to show them off without making them show-offs.

所以这些肖像又要炫耀他们，又要避免让他们看起来象卖弄的人。

Hey, look, I don't need you getting all judgmental and condescending and pedantic.

嘿，听着，不需要你对我指手画脚、高高在上的，卖弄学问。

He gave her a level look as though estimating how much coquetry was behind the question.

瑞德冷静地看眼，仿佛估量下这个问题里面有多少卖弄风情的成分。

For example, he liked to steal the show and showed off his shot putting.

比如，他喜欢出风头和卖弄他的推铅球表演。

He’s not a real basketball player, he’s more of a showboat with all the tattoos and fancy cars.

他不个正的篮球选手。他不过个爱炫耀自己的刺青和好车的人。Show 指表演节目，doing a show 指表演的意思。平常我们说个人很爱现、爱炫耀，就用show off 这个动词，showboat 有表演节目的船，引申成为名词，就指爱卖弄的人。

I remember she's somewhat of a showboat with that cello.

我记得个喜欢卖弄大提琴的人。

You are a bit of a pedant, Jason, a bit didactic?

你个卖弄学问的书呆子吗 杰森？

You need to show off is something to talk to your therapist about.

你应该和你的心理医师好好谈谈你的卖弄癖。

The Euroskeptic Five Star Movement said its a defeat of what it called the arrogance of power and demanded immediate elections.

疑欧派“五星运动”表示，这“卖弄权势”的挫败，同时他们要求马上举行选举。

" It's seventeen minutes past twelve, " she said, looking up at him with a kind of shy and clumsy coquetry.

“现在十二点十七分， ”说着，用种害羞笨拙的卖弄风情抬头看着他。

" He's the 'boy who lived' again now, though, isn't he? " said Ron darkly. " Not such a deluded show-off any more, eh? "

“他现在又那个‘大难不死的男孩’，不？”罗恩阴沉着脸说，“不再那个蛊惑人心、喜欢卖弄炫耀的人，嗯？”

The proper way to evaluate a person is of course by watching whether or not he " lays eggs" , not by listening to him singing his own praises.

但那善于炫耀和卖弄的人，生个蛋就唱得像生十个似的，只做出三分成绩就吹成十分，碰上个凡事只用耳朵听不用眼睛看的糊涂长官，自然就博得偏爱，于帆风顺，扶摇直上。

Mr. Bhaer soon joined her, looking rather out of his element, and presently several of the philosophers, each mounted on his hobby, came ambling up to hold an intellectual tournament in the recess.

巴尔先生很快和坐到块儿来，看上去和这里的环境格格不入，不久举行，尽管，几位哲学家卖弄着各人的拿手绝活，缓步走来利用休息间歇来场智力竞赛。

You might say: " Benjamin, you're such a show off. You show off. What is this strange outfit that you are wearing? " " Screw up" , now, this is slightly more American English than it is British English, but I've included it anyway.

“Benjamin，你个卖弄的人。你在炫耀。你穿的这身奇怪的衣服什么？”“搞砸”，现在，这在美式英语中用的比英式英语中要多点，但我还把它包括进去。