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

• He acts so high and mighty; I despise him!
  他那么趾高气扬，我真瞧不起他！
• Mr "high and mighty" is gonna rob his boss?
  这位正人君子先生居然要抢劫他的老板？
• 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？
• No matter how high and mighty you get, you never forget the very real pain of those ravines.
  无论登得多高，也无论多强大，你永远都不会忘记身处低谷的真正痛苦。
• 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。
• You think you are one of the high and mighty, remember pride goes before a fall.
  你自以为是了不起的人物，别忘了骄者必败。
• Of your high and mighty noble talk, big words.
  你那些高尚的大话。
• However, the pure CdTe films have high electrical resistivity and this is mighty unfavourable to improve the conversion efficiency of CdTe solar energy cells, and the best way is to doping donor or acceptor in pure CdTe films.
  但本征CdTe薄膜均为高阻半导体，这对于提高CdTe薄膜太阳能电池的光电转换效率是极为不利的，要提高CdTe薄膜的光电性能必须通过施主或受主的掺杂。
• They talked high and mighty.
  他们说起话来神气活现。
• 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。