high and mighty

英 [haɪ ənd ˈmaɪti]

美 [haɪ ənd ˈmaɪti]

adj.  盛气凌人的; 高傲的; 不可一世的

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 盛气凌人的;高傲的;不可一世的
  If you describe someone ashigh and mighty, you disapprove of them because they consider themselves to be very important and are confident that they are always right.
  1. I think you're a bit too high and mighty yourself.
     我认为你自己就有些过于盛气凌人。
  2. The high and mightyare people who are high and mighty.
     盛气凌人者;高傲的人;大人物
  3. The press mogul befriended the high and mighty in Britain.
     这位报界大亨和英国的显贵达人们交情甚好。

双语例句

• You go and show her a thing or two, bring her down a peg and see if she can still be so high and mighty.
  你去给她点脸色看，让她下不了台，看她还能神气活现？
• Scarlett Butler tumbled from her high and mighty place!
  思嘉-巴特勒从她那有钱有势地社会地位上一交摔下来了！非常有钱或有势力的商人。
• I worked my way up the firm the hard way; nowadays it seems that any high and mighty university type can enter the company straight at the top.
  我当时是通过自己的奋发努力才爬到了该公司的高层，现在似乎任何一个盛气凌人的大学生都可以直接爬到公司的高屋。
• Knowledge is so broad that scholars should not act high and mighty about it.
  知识是很宽阔的，学者们不可有所骄傲。
• The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
  都市的整个中心区域带着一种高不可攀的神气，仿佛故意要叫一前来找职业的人感到惶恐不安，故意要使贫富之间的鸿沟加宽加深。
• They talked high and mighty.
  他们说起话来神气活现。
• The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
  整个市中心区有著一种高傲的神气，好像故意要让一些前来寻找职业的普通人感到惶恐不安。
• He looked high and mighty as if showing no worry of food and clothing.
  他很高傲，一副不愁吃不愁穿的样子。
• All high and mighty like you're god's gift to us.
  你就像上帝给我们的恩赐一样。
• There's no need to be so high and mighty about it!
  在这件事上没有必要那样盛气凌人！