sanctimonious
英 [ˌsæŋktɪˈməʊniəs]
美 [ˌsæŋktɪˈmoʊniəs]
adj. 装作圣洁的; 伪善的; 道貌岸然的
BNC.33165 / COCA.24464
牛津词典
adj.
- 装作圣洁的;伪善的;道貌岸然的
giving the impression that you feel you are better and more moral than other people
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 假装高尚的;伪善的
If you say that someone issanctimonious, you disapprove of them because you think that they are trying to appear morally better than other people.- He writes smug, sanctimonious rubbish...
他写的都是些自我陶醉、故作清高的垃圾作品。 - You sanctimonious little hypocrite!
你这个道貌岸然的伪君子!
- He writes smug, sanctimonious rubbish...
英英释义
adj
- excessively or hypocritically pious
- a sickening sanctimonious smile
双语例句
- I was aware even as I spoke how sanctimonious I sounded.
甚至当我说话时,我都意识到我听上去是多么伪善。 - But they do require the us to be more pragmatic and less sanctimonious.
但它们确实要求美国更为务实,更加真诚。 - We must be of the company of the sanctimonious, those who live to judge others.
我们必定与假装神圣者们为伍,他们的活着就是为了评判别人。 - The most horrible thing is to quit and deserted, culminating in a seemingly sanctimonious pseudo-scholars.
最可怕的事莫过于知难而退,临阵脱逃,继而变成一个道貌岸然的伪学者。 - But Thomas Jefferson is the founder who sticks in the craw of the sanctimonious American right.
但是,托马斯杰弗逊是令美国右翼不爽的开国先贤。 - This doctor is a dissembler, apparently be sanctimonious, actual begin is cruel-hearted poison.
这个博士是个伪君子,表面上道貌岸然,实际上手狠心毒。 - What is more, Norway and Iceland point out, they have managed their fish stocks much better than the sanctimonious whale-lovers of the European Union.
而且,挪威和冰岛还指出,它们在管理鱼群方面要比那些道貌岸然、对捕鲸的欧盟国家做得好的多。 - A sickening sanctimonious smile.
令人作呕的伪装神圣的笑容。 - The German authorities were wrong to try to pin the blame on Spanish farmers. But there was something more to the subsequent backlash a sense in the commentary of other Europeans that "sanctimonious" Germany was getting its just deserts.
德国官方固然不该试图把责任推给西班牙农民,但由此激起的强烈反应却有更深一层的含义在其它欧洲国家的评论中,这纯粹是“道貌岸然”的德国人咎由自取。 - It's that sanctimonious air that people can't stand& small wonder he's laughed at.
人们所不能容忍的就是他那副假正经的样子难怪他要受到嘲笑。