Word · 単語
見栄
Reading みえ
show
- 1 show, display, pretensions, appearances, ostentation, vanity
- 2 pose, posture — usu. 見得
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
ビバリーヒルズのような高級住宅地で見栄を張り合うのは高くつく。
Keeping up with the Joneses is expensive in rich town like Beverly Hills.
彼女は好奇心からというより見栄からテニスを始めた。
She has begun to play tennis not so much out of curiosity as out of vanity.