supercilious

英 [ˌsuːpəˈsɪliəs]

美 [ˌsuːpərˈsɪliəs]

adj.  傲慢的; 高傲的

GRE

BNC.23595 / COCA.32081

牛津词典

adj.

• 傲慢的；高傲的
  behaving towards other people as if you think you are better than they are

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 自高自大的;目空一切的;傲慢的
  If you say that someone issupercilious, you disapprove of them because they behave in a way that shows they think they are better than other people.
  1. His manner is supercilious and arrogant...
     他非常傲慢自大。
  2. Her eyebrows were arched in supercilious surprise.
     大吃一惊的她高傲地扬起了眉毛。

双语例句

• Yet there was nothing sarcastic or supercilious in the way Ames spoke.
  可是艾姆斯说话的口气没有丝毫的嘲讽或傲慢的味道。
• The tone of all this is unrelievedly smug and supercilious, and thus makes for very unpleasant reading.
  全文的语调满是自鸣得意和目空一切，这就使人读起来很不舒服。
• He spoke in a haughty, supercilious voice.
  他说话时的口气轻蔑而傲慢。
• Various shapes are supercilious and straight, dancing with the wind.
  那千姿百态的形，或高傲挺拔，或随风舞动；
• Her eyebrows were arched in supercilious surprise.
  大吃一惊的她高傲地扬起了眉毛。
• His mother eyed me in silence with a supercilious air ( Tobias Smollett).
  他母亲以一种目空一切的架势一声不响地盯着我（托比阿斯斯摩莱特）
• And my friends had advise me don't be so stick to one's old way of doing things and supercilious.
  而我的朋友也曾告诫我，别那么高调和我行我素之类的话。
• Oh, the mansions, the lights, the perfume, the loaded boudoirs and tables! New York must be filled with such bowers, or the beautiful, insolent, supercilious creatures could not be.
  啊，那些高楼大厦，华灯，香水，藏金收银的闺房还有摆满山珍海味的餐桌！纽约一定到处都有这样的闺房，否则哪来那么些美丽，傲慢，目空一切的佳人。
• Have already canned not remember clearly Chu from when start, knew you on the net, that meeting my supercilious with be not good at a speech, a time take my chat in to arrive to break up most.
  已经记不清楚从什么时候开始，在网上认识了你，那会我的高傲与不擅言语，一次的将我的聊天带入到最的瓦解。
• This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace.
  这种目空一切的心态把我归入大路货的档次。