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单词 overbearing
释义
overbearing
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈbeə.rɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈber.ɪŋ/
tooconfidentand toodeterminedtotellotherpeoplewhat to do, in a way that isunpleasant:
专横的；傲慢的；盛气凌人的
Milligan had apompous, overbearingfather.米利根有个自负、专横的父亲。
Synonyms
domineeringdisapproving
haughtydisapproving
imperious
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Showing arrogance and conceit
(Definition ofoverbearingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

overbearing| American Dictionary

overbearing
adjective
us
/ˌoʊ·vərˈbeər·ɪŋ/
tooconfidentand toodeterminedtotellotherpeoplewhat to do, in a way that isunpleasantand noteasyto like:
an overbearingfather
(Definition ofoverbearingfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverbearing

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Perhaps, quite simply, he desired his freedom or perhaps his mistress was unreasonable andoverbearing.
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Some scholars have attempted to explain such collapse phenomena as the result of anoverbearingor top-heavy elite or of endemic war fare.
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They could payoverbearingchiefs what they asked for, or they could set their outrigger sails to the wind and hope for the best.
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This is a typicaloverbearingpractice of the west.
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Moreover, the building clearly does communicate its environmental image successfully without beingoverbearing.
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If he seemsoverbearingand one-sided in places, it is always because he has clearly thought out his position.
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At first, the losers shed the mores of the old regime, thereby expurgatingoverbearingfather figures.
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I have found, over many years of performing, that you should never put theoverbearingpolitical rant in the first 45 seconds of the show.
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Sometimes she was shoddy as a historian; she could beoverbearingas a moral philosopher.
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This may lead to excessive fruit set in full daylight and consequentoverbearingdie-back and biennial bearing, unless controlled by pruning and other crop management practices.
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In his view, the alleged subversiveness of nineteenth-century narrative "tends to function within theoverbearing'mythologies' that will already have appropriated it" (xi).
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Zimmer has a very readable style - intelligent, but notoverbearing, and with just enough technical language to keep even die-hard elitists happy.
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In a tantalizingly brief conclusion, he explains this outcome by reference to the persistence of anoverbearingstate and the insufficient entrenchment of citizenship and property rights.
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He displayed the mostoverbearingarrogance and unparalleled conceit.
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I must accept that sometimes he was impatient, intolerant, perhapsoverbearing.
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