high-sounding
冠冕堂皇,冠冕堂皇的,高大上的,高大上
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- : having an impressive or pretentious sound; grand: the high-sounding titles of minor officials.
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Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.
Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.
He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.
The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.