gloat
verb /ɡləʊt/
/ɡləʊt/
[intransitive]动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they gloat | /ɡləʊt/ /ɡləʊt/ |
| he / she / it gloats | /ɡləʊts/ /ɡləʊts/ |
| past simple gloated | /ˈɡləʊtɪd/ /ˈɡləʊtɪd/ |
| past participle gloated | /ˈɡləʊtɪd/ /ˈɡləʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form gloating | /ˈɡləʊtɪŋ/ /ˈɡləʊtɪŋ/ |
- gloat (about/at/over something) to show that you are happy about your own success or somebody else’s failure, in an unpleasant way
扬扬得意；沾沾自喜；幸灾乐祸 - She was still gloating over her rival's disappointment.
她仍在为对手的失望而幸灾乐祸。 - Having lost a large percentage of the vote, they were in no position to gloat.
失去了很大一部分选票，他们没有资格幸灾乐祸。 - I hope you haven’t just come here to gloat.
我希望你不是来幸灾乐祸的。 - He didn't want to hear her gloating at his misfortune.
他不想听到她对他的不幸幸灾乐祸。
词源late 16th cent.: of unknown origin; perhaps related to Old Norse glotta ‘to grin’ and Middle High German glotzen ‘to stare’. The original sense was ‘give a sideways or furtive look’, hence ‘cast amorous or admiring glances’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent. - She was still gloating over her rival's disappointment.