cocksure

英 [ˌkɒkˈʃʊə(r)]

美 [ˌkɑːkˈʃʊr]

adj.  过分自信的; 自高自大的; 自以为是的

BNC.46273 / COCA.31329

牛津词典

adj.

• 过分自信的；自高自大的；自以为是的
  confident in a way that is annoying to other people and that they might find offensive

柯林斯词典

• 过分自信的;自负的
  Someone who iscocksureis so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people.

英英释义

adj

• marked by excessive confidence
  1. an arrogant and cocksure materialist
  2. so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
  3. the less he knows the more positive he gets
  Synonym:overconfidentpositive

双语例句

• We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
  我们曾信心满满的看待许多事情，而事实并未如此。
• Don't be too cocksure and take things for granted.
  不要太过自信，硬以为是这样。
• If women today are cocksure, men are hensure.
  如果说现在的女人自信外露，那男人则温柔顺从。
• He was a plump, cocksure man.
  他是个胖乎乎的自以为是的人。
• Beware the cocksure interim who arrives declaring that he has seen it all before, and knows "exactly how to deal with a company/ team like this".
  当心那些过分自信的过渡经理们他们一来就宣称，以前见过很多这种情况，“完全知道该如何应对这样的公司或团队”。
• The cockerel is, naturally, cocksure.
  小公鸡自然是极其自傲的。
• He was so cocksure that she would call him first.
  他确信她会先打电话给他。
• He was an arrogant and cocksure materialist.
  他是一个狂妄的自信满满的唯物论者。
• She becomes cocksure, she puts all her passion and energy and years of her life into some effort or assertion, without ever listening for the denial which she ought to take into count.
  她如公鸡一般自信，她把她所有的热情、精力和时间投入到某项事业或追求中，而不倾听那些她理应考虑的反对意见。
• Cocksure, she is cocksure, but uneasy.
  她的确很自信，但不安闲。