grandstanding

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Predictably, much of that time was instead spent grandstanding.
不難預(yù)測，大部分時間都被浪費在嘩眾取寵上了。
Mr Obama’s calm and collected response to the turmoil on Wall Street contrasted sharply with Mr McCain’s grandstanding.
在應(yīng)對華爾街金融風(fēng)暴上，奧巴馬的鎮(zhèn)定從容與麥卡恩的嘩眾取寵形成了鮮明的對照。
The trick for David Cameron, the Tory leader, has been to find a path between incredible grandstanding and the seeming irrelevance that has been the result of occasionally agreeing with Mr Brown.
對保守黨領(lǐng)袖戴維德?卡梅倫來說，竅門是在難以置信的嘩眾取寵和表面上的不相關(guān)（是偶然與布朗先生一致的結(jié)果）之間找到一個方法。

As president, Lula has shown little patience for tree-huggers (see article), never mind grandstanding gringos.
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To Alocozy's lawyer, Stephen Shaiken, the whole affair smacked of grandstanding by the feds.
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But now it is time to subordinate the political grandstanding to the needs of economic recovery.
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acting or speaking in a way intended to attract the good opinion of other people who are watching

Grandstanding means behaving in a way that makes people pay attention to you instead of thinking about more important matters.