| 词汇 | jumped-up |
| 释义 | jumped-up adjective[ before noun ] UKinformaldisapprovinguk /ˌdʒʌmptˈʌp/ us /ˌdʒʌmptˈʌp/ behaving as if you are very important in your job or position, especially because you used to be in a much lower position: （尤指因地位显着提高后）自命不凡的，妄自尊大的 He's just a jumped-up office boy (= he was once only an office boy) .他不过是从办公室勤杂员的位子上升上来的妄自尊大的家伙。 Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogant arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom egoistic egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously popinjay swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom throw your weight aroundidiom Examples of jumped-upjumped-up I am only following the example of what can only be classed as the "modern jumped-up peerage". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After that, of course, we had the secondary modern schools, which were nothing more than jumped-up elementary schools. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first marquesses (which are sort of jumped-up earls, as indeed are dukes) were created in 1597 and the first viscount in 1606. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can a lot of jumped-up boundary commissioners abolish with one stroke of the pen 400 years of history? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not helped by the impertinent remarks from jumped-up pups of the kind that we had a few minutes ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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