gasconade
gas-kuh-NAYD
noun
What It Means
Gasconade is confident talk or behavior that is intended to impress other people.
Gasconade 是一種自信的談話或行為，試圖在給其他人留下深刻印象。
// After all his gasconade, the contestant couldn't manage to complete the obstacle race.
在他的誇口之下，競爭對手無一完成障礙賽。
Examples
"His malevolence was only equalled by his audacity,—and this was, if possible, surpassed by his gasconade." — Nathaniel Pitt Langford, Vigilante Days and Ways, 1996
他的惡毒只能與他的無畏相提並論，如果可能的話，他的自負超過了這一點。” — Nathaniel Pitt Langford，Vigilante Days and Ways，1996
Did You Know?
The citizens of Gascony in southwestern France have proverbially been regarded as prone to bragging. Their reputation has been immortalized in such swashbuckling literary works as Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. Linguistically, the legend survives in the word gascon, meaning "a swaggering person" or "braggart," as well as in gasconade itself.
法國西南部加斯科涅的居民被公認為吹牛大王。他們的名聲在大仲馬的《三劍客》和埃德蒙·羅斯丹的《大鼻子情聖》等傳奇歷險的文學作品中永垂不朽。從加斯科涅語言上講，這個說明在 gasconade 一詞中殘存下來，意思是“大搖大擺的人”或“吹牛”，以及 gasconade 本身。
心得與說文解字:
這次的單字展現了滿滿的歧視，把一個地名變成負面的詞彙，看來優良的傳統至今始終不變XDD
那今天的字根是 ob ( 對(抗)著 ) 跟 stur(ct) ( 建造；建設 )，先講前者 ob ，代表單字是 ob / sta ( 站立 ) / cle ( 小的部分 ) ，逆向突起的小東西意指"阻礙"。而也有相同意思的便是後者 stur(ct) 所要舉例的單字- obstruct。
ob / sturct ，合起來是對抗建造，衍伸意為妨礙；阻礙。
