uppity

单词uppity

基本解释

adj.: 傲慢的；自视甚高（而不服从）的
网络: 自负的；盛气凌人的；火狐向上一层扩展

权威解释

• 傲慢的；自视甚高（而不服从）的:

  behaving as if you are more important than you really are, especially when this means that you refuse to obey orders

英汉解释

• 高傲

同义词

adj.presumptuouspretentioussnobbishhaughtybumptious

反义词

adj.humbleflexible

例句

• Men hate an "uppity" woman; they also hate an "aggressive" woman. Ours has been a Jane Crow society for several thousands of years.

  男人不喜欢“盛气凌人”的女人，也不喜欢“敢作敢为”的女人。千百年来。我们的社会一直是个。

• As long as you keep her as a casual girlfriend and not a wife, if she gets too uppity you can simply walk away, free and clear.

  只要她是你普通的女友而不是妻子，一旦她让你不爽，分手就是了，一清二白。

• I thought perhaps he would resent the intrusion (he"d been my ad hoc mentor, after all, and I didn"t want to appear uppity).

  我想可能他会讨厌别人评价他的文章（毕竟他曾是我写作生涯上的指导者，我不想表现得太盛气凌人）。

• Don"t be so uppity . You don"t think we"re good enough for you?

  不要自以不起。你难道认为配不上你吗？

• This has been portrayed as a trivial matter being pursued by some cynical and uppity Americans who don"t know their place.

  这被描绘成了一桩鸡毛蒜皮的小事，只有某些愤世嫉俗，不知天高地厚，不掂掂自己斤两的美国人在那里执着的追根问底。

• Fearing a power grab, the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, sacked his uppity deputy and imposed capital controls.

  由于害怕被夺权，总理马哈迪•穆罕默德解雇了自负的副总理，加强了资金控制。

• And maybe she"s an uppity, "better than everyone" superskank.

  也可能她是个高傲女“比所有人都优秀”真扯蛋

• Where his uppity energy once inspired the country"s voters, today it seems merely to annoy.

  他那曾经盛气凌人的傲气曾经激励着该国的投票者，如今那看起来令人反感。

• His uppity sister-in-law had it coming to her.

  他那自负的小姨子活该。

• Men hate an "uppity" woman; they also hate an "aggressive" woman.

  男人们不喜欢〞傲慢的女人〞，也不喜欢〞敢作敢为的〞女人。