Arrogant
['ærəg(ə)nt] or ['ærəɡənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; 'an arrogant official'; 'arrogant claims'; 'chesty as a peacock' .
凯瑟琳編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.
(a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
校對:特伦斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Haughty, proud, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, contumelious, cavalier, overbearing, overweening, assuming, magisterial, dogmatic, imperious, important, swelling, blustering, big, high, lofty, stately, self-conceited, self-sufficient, UPPISH.
校對:莫利
例句/造句/用法:
- She was chilled but arrogant. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The news of these reverses caused a very great excitement in Germany and Austria, and the Tsar assumed a more arrogant attitude towards his ally. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I wish it might happen oftener, said the visitor in his easy arrogant way. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- They have other kinds of insects, but it does not make them arrogant. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She too was the awful, arrogant queen of life, as if she were a queen bee on whom all the rest depended. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It is from the festering humiliations of peoples that arrogant religious propagandas spring. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His face was very pleasant; he looked high but not arrogant, manly but not overbearing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mr. Malone's father termed himself a gentleman: he was poor and in debt, and besottedly arrogant; and his son was like him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Sir Arrogant is here, and I am glad to say, has been laid by the heels here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And all the while Gudrun could see in Gerald an arrogant English contempt for a foreigner. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Sir Arrogant Numskull is here, replied Mr. Boythorn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- How could I be arrogant, and you before me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
校對:莫利