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。 - You are so presumptuous and beyond control that you will have trouble one day.
你如此狂悖,不服管教,早晚是会出事的! - An arrogant or presumptuous person. assumption of airs beyond one's station.
傲慢自大或专横的人。不符合某人自己的身份的专横的态度。 - I feel it is presumptuous of me state what my salary should be.
我不敢冒昧说出薪金多少为合适。 - One should never be presumptuous and opinionated.
切不可自以为是。 - Now, swell up like a gobbler and tell me that he is worth a thousand blackguards like me and that I should n't dare to be so presumptuous as to feel either pity or contempt for him.
你现在可以像火鸡那样叫唤,你可以告诉我像我这样的流氓,一千个顶不上他一个,怎么竟敢如此狂妄,竟然对他表示怜悯或鄙视呢。 - Celia, I'm going to make a suggestion, and please don't think this presumptuous since it concerns your own company.
西莉亚,我要提个建议,因为涉及到你们公司,请不要认为这是冒昧。 - Don't make presumptuous comments out of ignorance. Don't make improper comments before you know the whole story.
不要不明原委,就妄加评论。 - 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。 - It would be presumptuous of me to comment on the matter.
我对这件事发表评论也许是很冒昧的。