overbearing
英 [əʊvə'beərɪŋ]
美[,ovɚ'bɛrɪŋ]
- adj. 傲慢的；压倒一切的
- v. 压住；否定；专横地对待；繁殖过度（overbear的ing形式）
助记提示
1. over- "above" + bear + -ing.
中文词源
overbearing 专横的
over-,在上，超过，bear,承担，承受。比喻用法。
英英释意
- 1. expecting unquestioning obedience;
- "he was imperious and dictatorial"
- "the timid child of authoritarian parents"
- "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
英文词源
- overbearing (adj.)
- figurative present participle adjective from overbear (v.) in its sense "to bear down."
实用场景例句
- an overbearing manner
- 专断的作风
牛津词典
- My husband can be quite overbearing with our son.
- 我丈夫有时对儿子很专横。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- During Nixon's ascendancy, too many staffers were overbearing.
- 在尼克松蒸蒸日上的时期, 他的手下人一个个骄横跋扈.
辞典例句
- Likewise, an overbearing stare can make you appear arrogant and egotistical.
- 此外, 过度的注视会让别人觉得你傲慢而自负.
期刊摘选
- The young man is so overbearing that no one wants to make friends with him.
- 这个年轻人太骄横了,没人愿意和他做朋友.
期刊摘选
- He is never overbearing, though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him.
- 尽管他指挥过级别最低的下等兵打仗,他却从不盛气凌人.
辞典例句
- Ask again " Rich and without arrogant ( rich, not overbearing ) how to tell "
- 又问: “ 富而无骄 ( 富裕了, 不骄横 ) 怎么讲? ”
期刊摘选
- If a person interacted with us like this, we'd find it uncomfortable and him overbearing.
- 如果是一个人这样和我们打交道, 我们会感觉到不太舒服,会感觉这个人有些傲慢无礼.
期刊摘选
- They are able to keep calm no matter how arrogant and overbearing those people are.
- 不管得势的人如何趾高气扬、不可一世,朋友依然可以处之泰然.
期刊摘选
- At the office he was mean and overbearing.
- 他在公司里表现得卑鄙专横.
辞典例句
- A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
- 泼妇被认为坏脾气或专横的女人.
期刊摘选
- Her arched eyebrows and grotesquely powdered face were at once seductive and grimly overbearing.
- 眉棱棱着,在一脸的怪粉上显出妖媚而霸道.
汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- At one time, she was known as arrogant overbearing.
- 她从前的名声是傲慢自大,甚至就年轻女演员而言.
期刊摘选
- They were insolent and overbearing to the servants and friends of Penelope.
- 他们对待佩内洛普的仆人和朋友傲慢无礼.
辞典例句
- However, we can sometimes turn and become overbearing and domineering.
- 然而, 有时我们也会过分依赖主导功能,变得过于傲慢自大.
期刊摘选
- A spoiled lamb will become an overbearing sheep.
- 被宠坏的小羊将会长成蛮横的大羊.
期刊摘选
- Be overbearing, overaggressive, and conceited.
- 傲慢专横, 咄咄逼人, 自负.
期刊摘选
- The workers detest his overbearing manner.
- 工人们很讨厌他那盛气凌人的态度.
期刊摘选
- You are too overbearing. I was too headstrong?
- 是你太霸道. 还是我太任性.
期刊摘选
- Social democracy seems inevitably associated with high taxes and obstructive and overbearing public sector trade unions.
- 社会民主主义似乎不可避免地与高税收和蓄意作对、专横跋扈的公共部门工会联系在一起.
期刊摘选
- Some of our neighbours quite justifiably find us overbearing, boastful and condescending towards them.
- 一些邻国的人民也觉得新加坡人很傲慢 、 喜欢自夸和看不起他们.这些说法并不是毫无根据的.
期刊摘选
- Promoted too quickly, the conceited young man became overbearing.
- 提拔得太快, 那个自负的年轻人变得盛气凌人.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He's so overbearing that no one wants to work for him.
- 他那么专横,没人愿为他工作.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- We found it hard to like the boy because of his overbearing manners.
- 因那男孩傲慢的态度,我们发觉很难喜欢他.
期刊摘选
- Overbearing people are not necessarily strong people in life.
- 霸气的人未必就是生活中的强者.
期刊摘选
- People can't stand his overbearing attitude.
- 他态度骄横,让人无法忍受.
期刊摘选
- My husband can be quite overbearing with our son.
- 我丈夫有时对儿子很专横。
辞典例句
- She returns to the big screen to play Candy's overbearing mother, Rose.
- 她又重返大银幕，扮演坎迪专横的母亲罗丝。
柯林斯例句