hauteur
hauteur 英 [əʊˈtɜ:(r)] 美 [hɔˈtɜr]
n. 傲慢；自大
名词复数:hauteurs
- Hauteur is an obnoxious display of overbearing pride and superiority over others. Rather than showing humility and respect, a bad king might act with hauteur toward his subjects.
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- n. 傲慢；自大
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1. Various explanations are offered for Obama's unfeeling hauteur and Europe's consequent heartache.
对奥巴马的冷酷傲慢，以及给欧洲带来的伤心，有多方面的解释。
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2. A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features, but he said not a word, and Elizabeth, though blaming herself for her own weakness, could not go on.
一阵傲慢的阴影罩上了他的脸，可是他一句话也没有说。 伊丽莎白说不下去了，不过她心里却在埋怨自己软弱。
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3. In those days everything from furniture to festivity was designed to be enjoyed by the many, so that whatever of pomp or magnificence there might have been did not savour of hauteur.
在那些日子里，从家具到节庆，一切都是为众人的享用而设计，因而无论有多么富丽堂皇，都没有倨傲的气息。
- hauteur (n.) "a haughty bearing, arrogance of manner," 1620s, from French hauteur "haughtiness, arrogance," literally "height," from Old French hauture "height, loftiness; grandeur, majesty" (12c.), from haut (see haught).
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