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hubris

/hyoo-bris, hoo-/US // ˈhyu brɪs, ˈhu- //UK // (ˈhjuːbrɪs) //

傲慢,自负,傲慢无礼,傲慢自大

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.

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Examples

  • He sees that apathy and hubris activated Flint’s public health crisis in 2014 and fuel it to this day.

  • It takes a lot of hubris to risk your solvency on the assumption rates stay unusually low forever.

  • In an agency long known for its competence, hubris became the nemesis that could not be overcome.

  • I maintained that hubris until October of 2017, when my daughter was born.

  • Heading off hubris was one of the commission’s main concerns, Lifton said.

  • He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.

  • What were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris?

  • The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems.

  • Can Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama?

  • Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.”

  • Or was even as noble a mind as his not proof against the overweening hubris to which a despotic genius has so often succumbed?

  • Every year He waxes too strong and commits "Hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment.

  • Each Year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of Hubris, and then is slain.

  • Her hubris was in part, at all events, the result of ignorance.

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