词汇 | hubris |
释义 | hubris noun[ U ] literaryuk /ˈhjuː.brɪs/ us /ˈhjuː.brɪs/ a way of talking or behaving that is too proud: 骄傲自大 He was punished for his hubris.他因为自大而受到了惩罚。 Saddening, shocking and upsetting affecting agonizingly arrogance baleful be cold comfortidiom disrespect distressful distressfully distressing distressingly hurtful hurtfully impiously impiousness lacerating teary touching touchingly tragically traumatic hubris | American Dictionaryhubris noun[ U ] us/ˈhju·brɪs/ an extreme and unreasonable feeling of pride and confidence in yourself: Hubris brought him down in the end. Examples of hubrishubris But one consequence of imaginative reinvention can be forgetfulness that merges with hubris when we fail to acknowledge how old legacies contribute to current work. They are packed every night with citizens seeking not recognizable relevant hubris but a fawning, flattering escape from reality. And a whole society can commit hubris just as much as an individual. That men of such hubris were dependent upon women for some of their most important innovations was often a difficult pill for them to swallow. Such a recognition reminds us that progress and hubris are inextricably linked. The commentary upon contemporary societies that the values of villa life proffer acts as a check to the hubris of contemporary culture. The organization appears to be afflicted with a kind of hubris that does not allow free discussion of dissenting viewpoints. It is wrong to patent because to do so is an act of arrogance or hubris. Whether due to hubris or a sense of duty, clinicians would like to use (or, at least, claim to use) this factor over the others. His confidence is unbounded, expressing a disposition of not simply pride but hubris. Whether it is hubris or foolish hope, we wish to fix everything in the world. Apart from hubris and the issue of how this claim would be evidenced, there are two problems with this idea. Amid all the other symptoms of this downward spiral the key problem was immoderate ambition, or hubris. All became hate-figures in their societies, and were punished in various ways for their hubris. Some castigate the hubris of some of its claims. 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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