Domineer
[,dɒmɪ'nɪə]
解释:
(v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.
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同义词及近义词:
v. n. Rule (tyrannically or haughtily), tyrannize, swell, swagger, bluster, bully, vapor, lord it, play the bully, take the lead, rule the roast, ride a high horse, lay down the law, carry it with a high hand.
黛布拉整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Lord, tyrannize, assume, usurp
ANT:Submit, succumb, defer, yield, bow, patronize
海耶斯校对
解释:
v.i. to rule arbitrarily: to command haughtily: to be overbearing.—adj. Domineer′ing overbearing.
编辑:苏珊娜
例句:
- The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him so much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- There was a faint domineering smile on his face. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She said you were domineering and rude. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- They say that Glorvina gives herself airs and that Peggy herself is intolerably domineering. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Their domineering impulses find satisfaction in conquering things, in subjecting brute forces to human purposes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- She has been domineered over hitherto by vulgar intellects. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
黛博拉编辑