pontificate
pontificate 英 [pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪt] 美 [pɑnˈtɪfɪkeɪt]
n. 教皇的职位 vi. 执行教皇职务；武断地表示意见
进行时:pontificating 过去式:pontificated 过去分词:pontificated 第三人称单数:pontificates 名词复数:pontificates
- To pontificate is to talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner. To pontificate properly, you need to be a know-it-all with very strong opinions and the urge to share them.
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- n. 教皇的职位
- vi. 执行教皇职务；武断地表示意见
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1. Quite logically, we get headlines that pontificate about yesterday’s news (Le Monde is an afternoon paper, oddly enough).
可以想象，我们看到的头条新闻是用权威的方式报道着昨天的新闻（足够奇怪的一点，《世界报》是一份晚报）。
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2. While a lot of folks may get corporate logo tattoos and/or pontificate about what such-and-such company did right or wrong, few of them will ever have any actual input.
虽然许多人可能用企业标志纹身及/或就公司如此这般的做法对或错发表武断的意见，但其中毕竟只有少数人会有任何实际的投入。
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3. because the people who run the country, and the people who pontificate about the people who run the country, act like they have all the answers when, clearly, they don't.
也因为管理这个国家的那些人，以及教育管理国家的那些人的那些人，表现得好像他们有所有问题的答案，可实际上，很明显，没有。
- pontificate (n.) 1580s, from Latin pontificatus "office of a pontiff," from pontifex (see pontifex).
- pontificate (v.) 1818, "to act as a pontiff," from Medieval Latin pontificatus, past participle of pontificare "to be a pontifex," from Latin pontifex (see pontiff). Meaning "to assume pompous and dignified airs, issue dogmatic decrees" is from 1825. Meaning "to say (something) in a pontifical way" is from 1922. Related: Pontificated; pontificating.
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