| 词汇 | self-righteously |
| 释义 | self-righteously adverb uk /ˌselfˈraɪ.tʃəs.li/ us /ˌselfˈraɪ.tʃəs.li/ in a self-righteous way (= believing that your ideas and behaviour are morally better than other people's) : 自以为是地 We read these books and shake our heads self-righteously, certain that if we had been there, it would never have happened. 我们读了这些书，自以为是地摇摇头，确信假如我们当时在那里的话，书中所说的那种事情就绝对不会发生。 The people who self-righteously claim to know the most about the environment here are not from here.那些自以为是地声称最了解这里环境的人并不来自这里。 See self-righteous Sometimes my mind self-righteously judges the people we meet. "I told you he couldn't cook," said Terry self-righteously. The paper self-righteously took up the story, forcing the other newspapers to follow suit. Feeling morally superior claim the moral high groundidiom de haut en bas holier-than-thou judgmental judgmentally moralistic moralistically pearl-clutching preachily preachiness priggishly righteous righteously sanctimonious sanctimoniously self-righteousness superior superiority complex virtue signalling virtuous Examples of self-righteouslyself-righteously They profit from the official structure of institutionalized charity, while self-righteously priding themselves on their own benevolence. And if it was an inconvenience, we could tell ourselves self-righteously that we were doing it for the sake of our weaker brethren. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was wallowing self-righteously in self-pity—and for what? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She makes gloves, and her rate of pay is 10p an hour, which is reminiscent of the cool system abroad which we used to deplore so self-righteously. 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. |
| 随便看 |
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。