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。
• There's no need to be/ get so high and mighty with me! Don't lord it over your friends.
  用不着对我摆架子！不要对你的朋友摆威风。
• You think you are one of the high and mighty, remember pride goes before a fall.
  你自以为是了不起的人物，别忘了骄者必败。
• No matter how high and mighty you get, you never forget the very real pain of those ravines.
  无论登得多高，也无论多强大，你永远都不会忘记身处低谷的真正痛苦。
• He acts so high and mighty; I despise him!
  他那么趾高气扬，我真瞧不起他！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
  都市的整个中心区域带着一种高不可攀的神气，仿佛故意要叫一前来找职业的人感到惶恐不安，故意要使贫富之间的鸿沟加宽加深。
• 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？