Domineer
[,dɒmɪ'nɪə]
解釋/意思:
(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.
阿诺德手打
同義詞及近義詞:
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
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Lord, tyrannize, assume, usurp
ANT:Submit, succumb, defer, yield, bow, patronize
海耶斯校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to rule arbitrarily: to command haughtily: to be overbearing.—adj. Domineer′ing overbearing.
編輯:苏珊娜
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There was a faint domineering smile on his face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She said you were domineering and rude. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- They say that Glorvina gives herself airs and that Peggy herself is intolerably domineering. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Their domineering impulses find satisfaction in conquering things, in subjecting brute forces to human purposes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She has been domineered over hitherto by vulgar intellects. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
黛博拉編輯