exhibition

exhibition
noun
  1. a public display of works of art or other items of interest, held in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair
    展览（会）；展出
    an exhibition of French sculpture.
    法国雕刻作品展。
    [mass noun]he never lent his treasures out for exhibition.
    他从不把自己的珍品外借展出。
  2. a display or demonstration of a particular skill
    展示；显露；表演
    fields which have been ploughed with a supreme exhibition of the farm worker's skills.
    充分显示出农场工人犁田技能的田地。
    [as modifier]an exhibition match.
    表演赛。
    ■[insing.]an ostentatious or insincere display of a particular quality or emotion
    卖弄；故作姿态
    a false but convincing exhibition of concern for smaller nations.
    假装表现出来但又使人坚信不疑的对小国的关心。
  3. (Brit.)a scholarship awarded to a student at a school or university, usually after a competitive examination
    (英)（竞赛性考试后发给优胜学生的）奖学金
常用词组
make an exhibition of oneself
  1. behave in a conspicuously foolish or ill-judged way in public
    出洋相；当众出丑
语源
  1. late Middle English (in the sense 'maintenance, support'; hence sense 3, mid 17th cent.): via Old French from late Latin exhibitio(n-), from Latin exhibere 'hold out' (see exhibit)
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