[mass noun]ceremony and splendid display, especially at a public event (尤指公共活动的)大排场,盛况 St Paul's was perfectly adapted to pomp and circumstance. 圣保罗大教堂非常适合盛大的场面。 ■(pomps)(archaic)ostentatious boastfulness or vanity (古)浮华;虚荣 the pomps and vanities of this world. 这个世界的浮华和虚荣。
语源
Middle English: from Old French pompe, via Latin from Greek pompē 'procession, pomp', from pempein 'send'