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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You go and show her a thing or two, bring her down a peg and see if she can still be so high and mighty.
  你去给她点脸色看，让她下不了台，看她还能神气活现？
• In a real-time signal processing system, the low-lying signal processing algorithm fits hardware realization using FPGA because it requires high processing speed and simple computational structure, while the high-lying signal processing algorithm fits software processing with DSP because of its complex control structure and mighty communication mechanism.
  实时信号处理系统中，低层的信号处理算法处理速度要求高，但运算结构相对简单，适用于FPGA进行硬件实现。而高层处理算法控制结构复杂，通信机制强大，适用于DSP软件编程处理。
• He acts so high and mighty; I despise him!
  他那么趾高气扬，我真瞧不起他！
• 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。
• Mr "high and mighty" is gonna rob his boss?
  这位正人君子先生居然要抢劫他的老板？
• Mister high and mighty master control.
  强大的主控制先生。
• 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。