| 词汇 | arrogant |
| 释义 | arrogant adjective uk /ˈær.ə.ɡənt/ us /ˈer.ə.ɡənt/ B2 unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people: 傲慢的;狂妄自大的;趾高气扬的 I found him arrogant and rude.我觉得他这个人狂妄自大、粗鲁无礼。 Synonyms conceiteddisapproving condescendingdisapproving haughtydisapproving hubristicliterary imperious lordly overbearingdisapproving patronizing pompousdisapproving proud(FEELING IMPORTANT)disapproving self-importantdisapproving sneeringdisapproving sniffyinformal snootyinformal superciliousdisapproving superior(BETTER)disapproving acting as if you are more important than other people arrogantI can't stand how arrogant he is! proudDon't be too proud to admit you're wrong. pompousWhat a pompous jerk! self-importantThe room was filled with self-important politicians. superiorHer superior and smug manner made conversation unbearable. She has an authoritative manner that at times is almost arrogant.她爱发号施令，有时几乎到了盛气凌人的地步。 I watched the interview and thought he seemed quite arrogant. He manages to exude confidence without being arrogant. Like a lot of hospital consultants, he terrifies his patients with his arrogant manner. If I say I'm a leading economic expert, won't that sound rather arrogant? Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom be too clever by halfidiom egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic egotistically patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously popinjay swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom throw your weight aroundidiom Related wordsarrogance arrogantly arrogant | American Dictionaryarrogant adjective us/ˈær·ə·ɡənt/ proud in an unpleasant way and behaving as if you are better or more important than other people: I never met a more conceited and arrogant young man. arrogancenoun[ U ]us/ˈær·ə·ɡəns/ I was disgusted by his arrogance. arrogantlyadverbus/ˈær·ə·ɡənt·li/ Lapham arrogantly claimed the land was his. Examples of arrogantarrogant This gave more power to arrogant, insensitive bureaucracy. Not only is there nothing intimidating or arrogant about his personal presentation style, this also goes for his written work. I think it is arrogant for officials to consider deliberately undermining their ministers by going outside the department. The reviewer's arrogant tone reveals a desire for distance, and the report served to reassure the readers of the security of segregation, culturally and racially. But in this scenario, how intellectually arrogant should you be about the details of your beliefs? I then recognized how arrogant is the linear 'carrot and stick' metaphor, designed to move donkeys a short distance. To some extent, this book follows the trend in seeing colonial ' expertise ' as inherently misinformed, baleful and racially arrogant. The first chapter, with almost no reference to any serious research in morphology, will therefore strike morphologists as both naive and arrogant. It sounds arrogant to claim that people do not understand the notion of a life worth living when they think they do. Lyrics are assertive and arrogant, but the exact words are less significant than the vocal styles involved, the shrill shouting and screaming. Some children look aggressive while others are relaxed and while some seem arrogant and assertive, others are less sure of themselves. The building is not just the arrogant and callous mimesis of one particular 'style'. It's no mystification to observe that even its syntacticians are seldom so arrogant as to claim they can enumerate its effects on the emotions. He was depicted as arrogant and a know-it-all. He thus pursued strategies of political dialogue and gradual opening or ouverture, breaking with the arrogant unilateral approach of the past decade. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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