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Predictably, much of that time was instead spent grandstanding.
不難預測，大部分時間都被浪費在嘩衆取寵上了。
Mr Obama’s calm and collected response to the turmoil on Wall Street contrasted sharply with Mr McCain’s grandstanding.
在應對華爾街金融風暴上，奧巴馬的鎮定從容與麥卡恩的嘩衆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.
對保守黨領袖戴維德•卡梅倫來說，竅門是在難以置信的嘩衆取寵和表麪上的不相關（是偶然與佈朗先生一致的結果）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.