• adj. 喧囂的；公然的；炫耀的；俗麗的

blat, 同bleat, 羊叫，擬聲詞。指明目張膽的說壞話。

blatant

blatant: [16] Blatant appears to have been coined, or at least introduced, by the poet Edmund Spenser. In the Faerie Queene 1596 he describes how ‘unto themselves they [Envy and Detraction] gotten had a monster which the blatant beast men call, a dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad [dreaded]’. This ‘blatant beast’ was an allegorical representation of calumny. In the 17th century the word came to be applied to offensively voluble people, but the main modern sense, ‘offensively conspicuous’, does not seem to have developed until the late 19th century.

If the word was Spenser’s own introduction, it is not clear where he got it from. The likeliest candidate seems to be Latin blatīre ‘babble, gossip’, of imitative origin.

blatant (adj.)

1596, in blatant beast, coined by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queen" to describe a thousand-tongued monster representing slander; probably suggested by Latin blatire "to babble." It entered general use 1650s, as "noisy in an offensive and vulgar way;" the sense of "obvious, glaringly conspicuous" is from 1889. Related: Blatantly.

1. I saw Sean's face cloud over at this blatant lie.

我看見肖恩聽到這個赤裸裸的謊話后臉色陰沉下來。

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2. The Advertising Standards Authority accused estate agents of using blatant untruths.

廣告標準管理局控告房地產(chǎn)代理商使用無恥的謊言。

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3. At times the arrogance of those in power is quite blatant.

有時那些當權(quán)者頗為傲慢囂張。

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4. Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.

外來人員會繼續(xù)受到最露骨的歧視。

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5. The elitism was blatant.

精英統(tǒng)治絲毫不加掩飾。

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