arrogant的意思|arrogant的解释-里氏词典

arrogant ['ærəgənt]

a. 傲慢的,自大的

He is an arrogant man.
他是一个自高自大的人。
He often speaks in an arrogant tone.
他经常以一种傲慢的口气说话。

arrogant

[ adj ]
having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
<adj.all>
an arrogant officialarrogant claims
chesty as a peacock

Arrogant \Ar"ro*gant\, a. [F. arrogant, L. arrogans, p. pr. of
arrogare. See {Arrogate}.]
1. Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant
claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue
degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to
persons.

Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. --Shak.

2. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding
from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to
things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

Syn: Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing;
presumptuous; haughty. See {Magisterial}.

"Maybe some of us were a little arrogant at times," conceded one Chase investment banker.
'I'm trying not to be arrogant, but in terms of the overall package, I don't think there is anybody,' she comments from the company's headquarters in San Francisco.
The French can be arrogant, unhelpful and apparently unfriendly. Two minutes later they can be humorous, and charming.
She described the Souter vote as "the most critical and important judicial appointment of the decade" and said it was arrogant of her Republican opponent to skip that and other major Senate votes.
Superior Court Judge J.D. Smith told retired paramedic Robert Dougherty, 50, on Friday that he had an arrogant attitude at work that contributed to the death of 42-year-old Melvin Wagner.
He is arrogant, charmless and possessed of an outsize business aggression which has driven Microsoft to annual sales of more than Dollars 2.5bn but won him few friends on the way. But this is merely the point at which Cringely begins to turn the knife.
After all, he has been on the scene through nearly 50 years of Japan's evolution from cruel and arrogant militarism to postwar destitution to constitutional democracy to industrial restoration, and ultimately to today's role as a major industrial power.
He also offers a well observed portrait of Jobs, who emerges as 'insanely great', rude, arrogant, self-absorbed and sometimes fatally inattentive to detail or the work of others. Yet Jobs was also as a kind of prophet.
'Today, the Islamic world is the only centre that can stand up against arrogant powers'.
By contrast the reigning World Champion Kasparov - 'Gazza', Short calls him - emerges as an arrogant self-seeking bullying two-timing thug.
Anyone who still views this dispute as the result of an arrogant American press should especially read the correspondence released in Singapore.
Emily Bremer, Scott's mother, said the football star didn't live up to his reputation for being arrogant. "He was so nice and caring," she said.
What seems more likely is that either a President or the courts or both someday will have to rescue the veto by forcing Congress to give up its arrogant ways.
"He sounds as if he knows more than we do. The danger is you can put a spin on that to suggest he's arrogant and patronizing and moralistic and self-righteous." "We don't like people who think they're better than we are," she said.
Self-righteous, arrogant, `I'm superior to you' people drive me nuts." Carvey has had other movie offers but has turned them down because he didn't find the characters very likable.
The Bundesbank's doubts over the agreed timetable for introducing the EC currency were "arrogant and unnecessary," a Brussels-based diplomat said.
So far, their behavior is arrogant and one of cowboy mentality." Musawi heads Islamic Amal, a faction within the pro-Iranian Hezbollah group that advocates strong links with Syria.
Elderly people screamed at students, calling them rude and arrogant.
Their portrayal stands in sharp contrast to the portrayal of Milken by government investigators as a scheming, manipulative, arrogant and greedy trader who colluded with now-imprisoned inside trader Ivan Boesky to violate a range of securities laws.
Three Merrill Lynch officials yesterday described Mr. Tabor as "arrogant."
"Fogg's a smart guy who has a reputation for being very arrogant and abrasive," says one competitor.
A man of ideas and an attractive figure to some, but regarded by others as arrogant, he is emphatically not a banker, and freely admits it.
But they represent for the staffer what he considers to be the types of excesses at taxpayer expense and the arrogant flaunting of laws that pervade the State Department hierarchy.
Opponents considered her arrogant and vindictive, and spared no effort to bring her down.
Those revelations, along with the Recruit scandal, a recently enacted 3% consumption tax, agricultural liberalization and the LDP's arrogant image were the main factors in the party's upper-house defeat.
But some customers, competitors and computer users grumble that Microsoft has become arrogant and overly ambitious in its attempts to orchestrate what has always been a buccaneering industry.
Warner's arrogant Colon (Columbus to us) regards his new lands chiefly as a source of gold, which is in fact lacking.
"Let met tell you something," Mr. Lorenzo snapped, "you're dealing here with one of the least arrogant guys in American business."
His rapid rise to the top of the advertising-marketing industry has left some people gushing at what they call his business genius and others describing him as arrogant and vindictive.
In addition, they (arrogant and reactionary worlds) put utmost pressure on Iran and threaten the Iranian nation.

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