presumptuous
英 [prɪˈzʌmptʃuəs]
美 [prɪˈzʌmptʃuəs]
adj. 自负的; 冒昧的; 放肆的
BNC.20705 / COCA.19469
牛津词典
adj.
- 自负的;冒昧的;放肆的
too confident, in a way that shows a lack of respect for other people
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 放肆的;冒昧的;自作主张的
If you describe someone or their behaviour aspresumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do.- It would be presumptuous to judge what the outcome will be.
现在就判断结果将会怎样未免有些冒昧。
- It would be presumptuous to judge what the outcome will be.
英英释义
adj
- excessively forward
- an assumptive person
- on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide
- the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants
双语例句
- Their presumptuous need for leisure may cause everyone behind them to miss a train they would have otherwise caught.
他说:他们自以为是地认为人们应该放慢脚步,享受闲适,然而这可能导致身后所有人错过了本可以赶得上的列车。 - Aren't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous?
像你们这样的人难道不是有点自以为是吗? - One should never be presumptuous and opinionated.
切不可自以为是。 - And as I know that many have written on this point, I expect I shall be considered presumptuous in mentioning it again, especially as in discussing it I shall depart from the methods of other people.
我所知,很多都写在这一点上,我希望我再次提到它应被视为放肆,尤其是因为在讨论这个问题,我会离开其他人的方法。 - Since he's so high up, I dare not be so presumptuous to make friends with him.
他那么显赫,我可不敢高攀。 - I believe it would be presumptuous to take this as a sign that Sarah thinks your puppy is ugly.
我相信这将是冒昧作为一个迹象,表明你的小狗莎拉认为这是丑陋的。 - Their feeling is rather presumptuous insolence.
他们的感觉是相当的专横傲慢。 - This is quite presumptuous, and if writers are not allowed to be so and quite often, in many places, they are not I see no point in the writing of fiction.
这是很专横的,擅作主张,不过,假如作家们不允许这样做的话在许多时候,许多地方,他们不允许这样做我看不出写小说还有什么意义。 - At the resume stage, this is anirresponsible and presumptuous thing to say.
在简历上说这句话是很不负责任、过于自负的行为。 - The absence of presumptuous self-conceit in Tito made him feel all the more defenceless under prospective obloquy.
蒂托由于缺乏自以为是的傲气,因此在声名扫地的前景之下更加显得束手无策。