| 词汇 | overbearing |
| 释义 | overbearing adjective disapprovinguk /ˌəʊ.vəˈbeə.rɪŋ/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈber.ɪŋ/ too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant: 专横的;傲慢的;盛气凌人的 Milligan had a pompous, overbearing father.米利根有个自负、专横的父亲。 Synonyms domineeringdisapproving haughtydisapproving imperious Giving orders & commands all-points bulletin boss someone around bossily bossiness bossyboots commanding decree demand dictate expect harry instruct prescribe push someone around put something on self-ordained shove shove someone around stick task You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Showing arrogance and conceit overbearing | American Dictionaryoverbearing adjective us/ˌoʊ·vərˈbeər·ɪŋ/ too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant and not easy to like: an overbearing father Examples of overbearingoverbearing Perhaps, quite simply, he desired his freedom or perhaps his mistress was unreasonable and overbearing. Some scholars have attempted to explain such collapse phenomena as the result of an overbearing or top-heavy elite or of endemic war fare. They could pay overbearing chiefs what they asked for, or they could set their outrigger sails to the wind and hope for the best. This is a typical overbearing practice of the west. Moreover, the building clearly does communicate its environmental image successfully without being overbearing. If he seems overbearing and one-sided in places, it is always because he has clearly thought out his position. At first, the losers shed the mores of the old regime, thereby expurgating overbearing father figures. I have found, over many years of performing, that you should never put the overbearing political rant in the first 45 seconds of the show. Sometimes she was shoddy as a historian; she could be overbearing as a moral philosopher. This may lead to excessive fruit set in full daylight and consequent overbearing die-back and biennial bearing, unless controlled by pruning and other crop management practices. In his view, the alleged subversiveness of nineteenth-century narrative "tends to function within the overbearing 'mythologies' that will already have appropriated it" (xi). Zimmer has a very readable style - intelligent, but not overbearing, and with just enough technical language to keep even die-hard elitists happy. In a tantalizingly brief conclusion, he explains this outcome by reference to the persistence of an overbearing state and the insufficient entrenchment of citizenship and property rights. He displayed the most overbearing arrogance and unparalleled conceit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must accept that sometimes he was impatient, intolerant, perhaps overbearing. 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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