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发音：[taʊt]
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例句：
- Tout means to praise or publicize someone or something lavishly and often excessively, often with the intention of selling or gaining support.
- He touted their bravery and vowed that if war came, Polish soldiers would not give the Germans who dared to invade so much “as a button from their uniforms.”
- Airbnb has long touted its service as a way to “live like a local” and stay in a real person’s home.
- In a statement, a McDonald’s spokesman said the company was “grateful to have the hardest working teams in the country” and touted a pay increase at corporate-owned restaurants.
- Various studies have touted modern genetics as a potential tool to alleviate health woes that disproportionately plague Black communities like those on Buffalo’s East Side, and as a means to combat social inequality.
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解释：
- Tout这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to praise or publicize someone or something lavishly and often excessively”这一含义，即“兜售/吹捧/推销/标榜”，与brag/boast/ballyhoo这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Science news headlines regularly tout how gravitational waves are allowing scientists to do new things like peer inside neutron stars and discover the wobbliest black hole ever detected.（科学新闻头条经常吹捧引力波如何让科学家做新的事情，比如观察中子星内部，发现有史以来最不稳定的黑洞。）
—Science - Apple still hasn’t revealed the battery capacity in the iPhone 14, Plus, Pro, and Pro Max models but vaguely touts that it comes with the company’s “longest battery life ever.”（苹果仍未透露iPhone 14，Plus，Pro和Pro Max型号的电池容量，但含糊其辞地吹捧该公司“有史以来最长的电池寿命”。）
—Technology - E-cigarettes are touted as safer than tobacco cigarettes because while they deliver the addictive drug nicotine they do not give off smoke that contains carcinogens.（电子烟被吹捧为比烟草卷烟更安全，因为当它们提供成瘾药物尼古丁时，它们不会释放出含有致癌物的烟雾。）
—Business - The movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Mr. Smith as a runaway slave who joins the Union army, is in postproduction and has already been touted as a possible awards contender.（这部电影由安托万·福夸（Antoine Fuqua）执导，史密斯饰演一名加入联邦军队的逃跑奴隶，正在后期制作中，已经被吹捧为可能的奖项竞争者。）
—Arts and Culture
