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

• At this moment, see that female doctor turned over supercilious look to cry only: Who makes you true pull, should use cotton autograph to go to only li of jab it is OK to go in!
  这时，只看到那位女医生翻了一下白眼大叫：谁让你真拉呀，只要用棉签往里戳进去就可以了！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
  现在他是三十多岁的人了，身体健壮，头发稻草色，嘴边略带狠相，举止高傲。
• Her eyebrows were arched in supercilious surprise.
  大吃一惊的她高傲地扬起了眉毛。
• His carriage was bold and somewhat supercilious, his step easy and free, his manner daring and unconstrained.
  他仪表大方，甚至略带傲慢，步履潇酒，神态从容。
• Passing down the aisle came a very fair-haired banker's son, also of chicago, who had long eyed this supercilious beauty.
  沿着走道，走过来一个金发的银行家之子。他也是芝加哥人，他对这个傲慢的美人已经注意很久了。
• 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）
• 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；