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人。

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

嘿，听着，不需要你手画脚、高高在上，卖弄学问。

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

瑞德冷静地看了她一眼，仿佛估量一下这个问题里面有多卖弄风情成分。

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.

他不是个正篮球选手。他不过是个爱炫耀自己刺青和好车人。Show 是表演节目，doing a show 是表演意思。平常们说一个人很爱现、爱炫耀，就用show off 这个动词，而showboat 是有表演节目船，引申成为名词，就是爱卖弄人。

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

记得她是个喜欢卖弄大提琴人。

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

你是个卖弄学问书呆子吗 杰森？

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

你应该和你心理医师好好谈谈你卖弄癖。

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，这是“卖弄权势”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.

“现在是十二点十七分， ”她说着，用一种害羞而笨拙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? "

“他现在又是那个‘大难不死男孩’了，是不是？”罗恩阴沉着脸说，“而不再是那个蛊惑人心、喜欢卖弄炫耀人了，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人，生一个蛋就唱得像是生了十个似，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糊涂长官，自然就博得了偏爱，于是一帆风顺，扶摇直上了。

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.

巴尔先生很快和她坐到一块儿来了，看上去和这里环境格格不入，不久举行一，尽管，几位哲学家卖弄着各人拿手绝活，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，你是个卖弄人。你在炫耀。你穿这身奇怪衣服是什么？”“搞砸了”，现在，这在美式英语中用比英式英语中要多一点，但还是把它包括进去了。