presumptuous

英 [prɪˈzʌmptʃuəs]

美 [prɪˈzʌmptʃuəs]

adj.  自负的; 冒昧的; 放肆的

TOEFL

BNC.20705 / COCA.19469

牛津词典

adj.

• 自负的；冒昧的；放肆的
  too confident, in a way that shows a lack of respect for other people

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 放肆的；冒昧的；自作主张的
  If you describe someone or their behaviour aspresumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do.
  1. It would be presumptuous to judge what the outcome will be.
     现在就判断结果将会怎样未免有些冒昧。

英英释义

adj

• excessively forward
  1. an assumptive person
  2. on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide
  3. the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants
  Synonym:assumptiveassuming

双语例句

• This is quite presumptuous, and if writers are not allowed to be so and quite often, in many places, they are not I see no point in the writing of fiction.
  这是很专横的，擅作主张，不过，假如作家们不允许这样做的话在许多时候，许多地方，他们不允许这样做我看不出写小说还有什么意义。
• I don't like you being so presumptuous.
  我不喜欢你这么专横无礼。
• Since he's so high up, I dare not be so presumptuous to make friends with him.
  他那么显赫，我可不敢高攀。
• Their presumptuous need for leisure may cause everyone behind them to miss a train they would have otherwise caught.
  他说：他们自以为是地认为人们应该放慢脚步，享受闲适，然而这可能导致身后所有人错过了本可以赶得上的列车。
• Now, swell up like a gobbler and tell me that he is worth a thousand blackguards like me and that I should n't dare to be so presumptuous as to feel either pity or contempt for him.
  你现在可以像火鸡那样叫唤，你可以告诉我像我这样的流氓，一千个顶不上他一个，怎么竟敢如此狂妄，竟然对他表示怜悯或鄙视呢。
• You have been malicious, presumptuous and misguided; also your so-called facts are wrong.
  你自己误入歧途，还出言不逊，恶意中伤。你的那些所谓事实，不过是姑妄之言。
• It was very presumptuous of him to expect to be invited.
  他非常傲慢，以为人家会邀请他。
• It would be presumptuous of me to comment on the matter.
  我对这件事发表评论也许是很冒昧的。
• The absence of presumptuous self-conceit in Tito made him feel all the more defenceless under prospective obloquy.
  蒂托由于缺乏自以为是的傲气，因此在声名扫地的前景之下更加显得束手无策。
• I feel it is presumptuous of me state what my salary should be.
  我不敢冒昧说出薪金多少为合适。