peremptory
peremptory 英 [pəˈremptəri] 美 [pəˈrɛmptəri]
adj. 强制的；绝对的；断然的；专横的
- Peremptory comments are like orders. If you say something in a peremptory manner, you want people to stop what they’re doing and do what you say. Peremptory comments put an end to a discussion, and that’s final!
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- adj. 强制的；绝对的；断然的；专横的
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1. Still, the sort of youthful zeal that leads her to peremptory judgments and furious imperatives — “Somewhere . . .
承然，那种年轻人的热情导致了她的专横论断与强烈语气。 ——“有时......我得承认对（托马斯.）
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2. Hanna had been behaving oddly for days, moody and peremptory, and the same time palpably under some kind of pressure that was absolutely tormenting her and left her acutely sensitive and vulnerable.
几天来汉娜的行为一直都很古怪，喜怒无常，专横霸道，同时很明显看得出有某种压力在不折不扣地折磨着她，使她极其敏感和脆弱。
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3. “You will please take it, ” he replied, in a peremptory manner; and she took it.
“请你收下吧”他专横地说。 她拿过衣服。
- peremptory (adj.) "decisive," mid-15c., legal term, from Anglo-French peremptorie, from Latin peremptorius "destructive, decisive, final," from peremptor "destroyer," from perimpere "destroy, cut off," from per "away entirely, to destruction" (see per) + emere "to take" (from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute"). Of persons or their words, "certain, assured, brooking no debate," 1580s. Related: Peremptorily.
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