presumptuous
音标发音
- 英式音标 [prɪ'zʌm(p)tʃʊəs]
- 美式音标 [prɪˈzʌmp.tʃuː.əs]
- 国际音标 [pri'zʌmptjuəs, -tʃuəs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.自以为是的,专横的,冒失的
- adv.自以为是地,专横地,冒失地
- n.自以为是,专横,冒失
词根记忆
- 来自presumpt(ion)(放肆) + uous→放肆的→专横的
英汉例句
- It is too presumptuous of him to do so.
他这样做太放肆了。
《新英汉大辞典》 - And as I said, presumptuous of me to say this, if that occurs and continues to occur, it will benefit the whole world.
如我所说,恕我冒昧这样说,当那种情况出现并且继续出现时,全世界都将受益。 - Clearly, it is presumptuous and immoral for a small group of individuals to keep these things under wraps while there is so much misery on the planet.
显然地,一小群人把这些事情保密起来而还有很多人在承受那么多的苦难,这是专横和邪恶的。 - What could possibly be more presumptuous than the association of the beginning of one's own career, one's own literary career, with the birth of the Christian messiah?
还有什么能够比,把自己事业的开端,自己的文学生涯,与基督教救世主的诞生相提并论更胆大妄为的?
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选 - There's a fear here that the ambition of this bid for paternal light is presumptuous, perhaps it's even satanic Satan of course in the next book, Book Four will have his invocation to light.
人们会担心弥尔顿认为光与上帝差不多的想法,过于胆大妄为,或许是极恶的,当然,第四卷里的撒旦,也会祈求光明。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选 - As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.
尽管想要先于荷马或维吉尔的雄心,很冒失,这却绝不是弥尔顿想要做第一,的壮志的终点,他在这里所写的,缪斯正是那个启示了牧羊人摩西的缪斯。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选 - Once I got past my worries about seeming presumptuous, the actual negotiation was easy.
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双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
词组短语
- presumptuous overbearing 放肆
- presumptuous detail 自以为是
- presumptuous demand 妄求
- Presumptuous Request 不情之请
- School presumptuous 学校放肆
短语
英英字典
- A person who is presumptuous shows little respect for others by doing things they have no right to do.
- If you describe someone or their behaviour as presumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do.