puffery

puffery

1. The satirical magazine Spy threw darts at all the puffery of the era, and was especially fast to disdain the gaudy arrivistes in favor of dandruff-flecked Old Money.

一家叫《窥视》的讽刺杂志对那一时代的浮夸风大肆抨击，尤其鄙视那些爱炫耀的暴发户，认为那些老富翁更有品味，尽管他们的头发上有头屑。

2. 'There has been been so much hype and puffery around virtual worlds,' says Ginsu Yoon, Linden's vice president of business affairs.

个人、企业和教育机构可以在虚拟世界置办地产，并设计出虚拟的家庭、办公室和休闲空间。

3. Use the mail, fax, and e-mail. Consider putting together a brief newsletter that provides valuable information they can use, not just puffery about your company and products.

使用信函、传真或电邮。考虑编写一个简短的通讯，提供他们可以运用的有用信息，而不仅仅是有关你的公司和产品的吹嘘。

4. Might participants develop a non-conscious positive association with the department store, even after rejecting the ad as meaningless puffery?

参与者虽然对广告中毫无意义的马屁嗤之以鼻，但他们会在不知不觉中对这家百货公司产生好感吗？

5. Puffery: Flattering, often exaggerated praise and publicity, especially when used for promotional purposes.

吹捧:尤指用于促销的常是夸张的赞扬和宣传。

6. Western courts tend to dismiss the claims of real estate agents as "mere puffery".

西方的法院倾向于驳回房地产商的申诉而仅仅因“夸大其词”。

7. It's all puffery and nonsense that can constrain and damage the mind and a life.

谁如果说这样的生活会压抑和损伤脑力和生命力，那绝对是胡说八道。