officious

英 [əˈfɪʃəs]

美 [əˈfɪʃəs]

adj.  爱指手画脚的; 爱发号施令的

GRE法律

BNC.33087 / COCA.27746

牛津词典

adj.

• 爱指手画脚的；爱发号施令的
  too ready to tell people what to do or to use the power you have to give orders
  1. a nasty officious little man
     讨厌、好管闲事的家伙

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 好管闲事的；爱指手画脚的
  If you describe someone asofficious, you are critical of them because they are eager to tell people what to do when you think they should not.
  1. They wouldn't welcome any officious interference from the police...
     他们不会欢迎任何来自警方的横加干涉。
  2. When people put on uniforms, their attitude becomes more confident and their manner more officious.
     人们穿上制服后会信心倍增，也更爱管闲事了。

英英释义

adj

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  1. an interfering old woman
  2. bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself
  3. busy about other people's business
  Synonym:interferingmeddlesomemeddlingbusybusybodied

双语例句

• But because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim.
  而是因为教授及其崇拜者们一味地把它们弄得面目全非，而且还殷勤地献上其本身并未要求的赞扬。
• When people put on uniforms, their attitude becomes more confident and their manner more officious.
  人们穿上制服后会信心倍增，也更爱管闲事了。
• He is a harsh man, at once pompous and officious.
  他是个严酷的人，既自负又爱管闲事。
• She liked them because they were not officious.
  她喜欢他们，因为他们不爱管闲事。
• When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.
  最近我刚从国外回来，一个过份殷勤的关员把我当作了一个走私者。
• The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention.
  事实上是因为，你对于殷勤多礼的客套，已经感到腻烦。
• They wouldn't welcome any officious interference from the police
  他们不会欢迎任何来自警方的横加干涉。
• Pick an malign malign spirit of eyebrow a agreeable half-day a smile: "In my image, appear you is it one that favor an officious person and how tin saved such a person?"
  好半天，挑眉邪魅一笑：“在我形象中，似乎你并不是一个喜欢多管闲事的人，怎么会救了这样一个人？”
• I moved becasue I can't put up with that officious landlady any longer.
  我搬家是因为我再也受不了那个好管闲事的女房东了。
• We is tired of is push around by officious civil servant.
  我们厌恶那些把我们支来支去的公务员。