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

• You were once high and mighty souls, and accepted the challenge to drop down through the dimensions and experience duality.
  你们曾经都是崇高的，伟大的灵魂，并且接受了这个挑战来降低振动进入了这个维度体验二元性。
• He looked high and mighty as if showing no worry of food and clothing.
  他很高傲，一副不愁吃不愁穿的样子。
• The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
  整个市中心区有著一种高傲的神气，好像故意要让一些前来寻找职业的普通人感到惶恐不安。
• He acts so high and mighty; I despise him!
  他那么趾高气扬，我真瞧不起他！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There's no need to be so high and mighty about it!
  在这件事上没有必要那样盛气凌人！