overweening

英 [ˌəʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈwiːnɪŋ]

adj.  傲慢的; 自负的; 过于自信的

现在分词：overweening　

GRE

BNC.41562 / COCA.37910

牛津词典

adj.

• 傲慢的；自负的；过于自信的
  showing too much confidence or pride

柯林斯词典

• ADJ （雄心、骄傲等）过度的，过分的
  If you want to emphasize your disapproval of someone's great ambition or pride, you can refer to theiroverweeningambition or pride.
  1. 'Your modesty is a cover for your overweening conceit,' she said.
     “你表面谦虚，骨子里目中无人。”她说道。

双语例句

• No: England had no need of an national stadium, just a huge, overweening desire for one.
  不：英格兰队不需要一个专门的国家队比赛场，只是某些骄傲自负的虚荣心需要它。
• 'Your modesty is a cover for your overweening conceit,' she said.
  “你表面谦虚，骨子里目中无人。”她说道。
• The proud and arrogant man-"Mocker" is his name; he behaves with overweening pride.
  心骄气傲的人，名叫亵慢，他行事狂妄，都出于骄傲。
• Unlike George W Bush, his overweening predecessor, President Obama has held out an olive branch to all of America's mortal enemies.
  奥巴马就任美国总统之后，一改其前任布殊总统的嚣横取态，向美国的对头都伸出橄榄枝。
• We need to ensure that executive and non-executive board members understand the financial system better and so can challenge an overweening CEO.
  我们需要确保执行及非执行董事更好地理解金融体系，这样才能够挑战狂妄自大的首席执行官。
• Overweening Chinese state power also might be chasing many foreign businesses and some developing countries toward more congenial investment and trade partners.
  唯我独尊的中国国家权力有可能造成很多外国企业和一些发展中国家寻求其他更加宜人的投资和贸易伙伴。
• It comes from the negative influence of official standard values, overweening political culture and legal culture tradition of courtesy-ruling, departmentalism on the dependence of connection, ideology tradition of constrain the individual freedom.
  包括：礼治而非法治的法律文化传统、独尊的政治文化传统、人的依赖关系状态下的本位主义、选拔社会下的官本位价值观；
• The most partisan politicians, upon winning, must govern in the name of all, using the powers of overweening government they have secured, so to hell with all politicians.
  一旦赢得大选，党派政客们大多须以全体的名义进行统治，把他们所维护的过分夸大的政府权力运用起来，所以就让政客们统统见鬼去吧。
• This was merely the outcome of her overweening pride.
  这不过是她过于骄傲的结果。
• It had also brought up an overweening cultural personality, and its cultural rays of light had bathed the tour minds and words and deeds of intellectual in late Ming Dynasty.
  晚明市民文化造就了一种具有时代特点的惟我独尊、狂傲无比的文化人格，其所折射出来的文化光芒，沐浴着晚明文人士子的旅游心理和言行。