舞文弄墨 meaning in English
show off [play with] literary skill; confuse facts by means of writing; engage in phrasemongering; fiddle at writing; indulge in fancy writing; juggle with words; pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology; play on words; play with the pen; write in a showy style
Examples
- I was rather literary in college .
我在大学的时候是喜欢舞文弄墨的。 - Jo, who reveled in pens and ink, was the editor .
裘因为热衷于舞文弄墨便当了编辑。 - If i am rhetorical it was because stroeve was rhetorical .
如果我在这里有些舞文弄墨，这是因为施特略夫当时就是这么表达他自己的。 - I composed verses, feeble lines which perhaps showed my early love for words but certainly forecast no poetical future .
我写诗，寥寥几行，这也许表现出我早年喜欢舞文弄墨的习惯，但是，肯定没有作诗的前途。 - You ' ve got to admit , he does have a way with words
你得承认他还真会舞文弄墨的。