For all the bluster, one can't help feeling the tough EU stance is a bit of a bluff.
说道威胁恐吓，你会不由得发现欧盟强硬的立场也不过是虚张声势而已。With a bit of bravado, the old gang hung out their new shingle: the Prediction Company.
虽然带着那么一点虚张声势的味道，但这伙子旧匪还是把他们的新招牌给挂了出来：预测公司。"Bill, " said the stranger, in a voice that I thought he had tried to make bold and big.
“毕尔，”那个陌生人喊道，用的语调，照我看，是想虚张声势，壮壮胆子。I though it was just a bluff to get me to stay home from school.
我想这不过是虚张声势，想让我逃课。So they do a bit of sabre-rattling but mostly let their companies use tax havens to suit their needs.
因此它们只是虚张声势，很多时候会让自己国家的公司利用避税港各取所需。"That shows how much you don't know, " Yossarian bluffed, and told Doc Daneeka about the troublesome pain in his liver.
“这说明你多么没有知识，”犹索林虚张声势地说，然后告诉丹尼卡医生他的肝脏给他带来的疼痛。Republicans snort that he was bluffing all along when he said he would get tough in Afghanistan.
共和党人则嘲笑说，奥巴马以前表示将在阿富汗采取强硬政策原来一直是虚张声势。I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.
我那时喜欢把自己看作是一个大人，但惊恐慌乱就像一条饥肠辘辘的食人鱼吞食猎物一般，渐渐攻破了我的虚张声势。The company's threat to sack anyone who went on strike was just (a) bluff.
公司威胁说谁罢工就解雇谁，那只不过是虚张声势而已。