Arrogance
['ærəg(ə)ns] or ['ærəgəns]
解释:
(n.) The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
阿伊达整理
同义词及近义词：
n. Haughtiness, pride, presumption, assumption, superciliousness, disdain, contumely, lordliness, loftiness, stateliness, self-conceit, conceitedness, self-importance, HAUTEUR.
录入:特伦特
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Haughtiness, contemptuousness, overbearingness, hauteur, browbeating,loftiness, self-conceit, stateliness, vainglory, insolence, self-importance,assumption, discourtesy
ANT:bashfulness, servility, considerateness, deference, courtesy, modesty, shyness,diffidence, politeness
整理:马提
例句:
- And Birkin seemed to her almost a monster of hateful arrogance. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This phrase, in its senseless arrogance, quite cured me of the temporary weakness which had made me relax my tone and aspect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But submission only increased the arrogance of Rome and the pitiless greed of the rich Equestrian order which swayed her counsels. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was a crushing and exorbitant peace, dictated with the utmost arrogance of confident victors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Always do they talk that way in their arrogance before a goring. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Lieutenant Berrendo, who was riding at the head of the column, his flankers out, his point pushed well forward, felt no arrogance. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Also they are of a social, gracious disposition, equally free from cowardice and arrogance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- They led to a war with Russia which marks an epoch in the history of Asia, the close of the period of European arrogance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- These were new ideas; imported, he did not doubt, straight from 'la Grande Bretagne:' they savoured of island insolence and arrogance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
昌西整理