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

• 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。
• Yes, everyone loves the scandal, no matter how big or small, after all, what could be more entertaining, than watching the downfall of the high and mighty?
  每个人都喜欢丑闻，或大或小。毕竟，有什么比看到别人从高峰跌倒低谷更令人愉快呢？
• 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。
• Knowledge is so broad that scholars should not act high and mighty about it.
  知识是很宽阔的，学者们不可有所骄傲。
• Scarlett Butler tumbled from her high and mighty place!
  思嘉-巴特勒从她那有钱有势地社会地位上一交摔下来了！非常有钱或有势力的商人。
• 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？
• I worked my way up the firm the hard way; nowadays it seems that any high and mighty university type can enter the company straight at the top.
  我当时是通过自己的奋发努力才爬到了该公司的高层，现在似乎任何一个盛气凌人的大学生都可以直接爬到公司的高屋。
• The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
  整个市中心区有著一种高傲的神气，好像故意要让一些前来寻找职业的普通人感到惶恐不安。
• He's become very high and mighty since he get that new job.
  他自从得到了那份新工作后就变得神气活现。
• They talked high and mighty.
  他们说起话来神气活现。