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今 天说说 supercilious /supər’sɪlɪəs/。
super 表示超过,词根 cili 表示睫毛 (如睫毛 eyelash 的学名叫 cilium),再加上形容词后缀 ous,构成了这个单词的字面意思”在眉毛之上”,引申为目空一切,目中无人。
His supercilious manner made him unpopular at the office.
他目空一切的样子让他在办公室很不受欢迎。
再来一句难一点的:
His supercilious disdain for our project was very demotivating.
他对我们的方案嗤之以鼻,这让大家很沮丧。
( disdain:鄙视;demotivating:令人丧气的 )
He has a condescending attitude toward women.
他对女性总是一副居高临下的样子。
Her father is overbearing with her.
她的父亲对她很专横。
△动词 patronize 指高人一等地对待某人。
△Wonder Wheel (《摩天轮》)
He had changed since his New Haven years. Now He was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
与大学时代相比,他的样子改变了不少。他现在已经三十多岁了,体格健壮,头发呈稻草色,嘴角略带狠相,眼神异常傲慢,给人一种盛气凌人的印象。
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I think he’d tanked up a good deal at luncheon and his determination to have my company bordered on violence. The supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do.
他那天中午肯定没少喝,因此他的做法简直近乎一种暴力行为。他自以为我在星期天的下午一定没有别的更有意思的事情可做了。
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德《了不起的盖茨比》)
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