hybris
/hahy-bris/US // ˈhaɪ brɪs //UK // (ˈhaɪbrɪs) //
蕙兰,蕙质兰心,蕙智,蕙蕙
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : hubris.
Examples
The crime of hybris, which to the Greeks was the "unforgivable sin," is here made as real to us as it was to them.
The vice which they denounced was hybris, wilful bondbreaking—wilful transgression of the socially appointed bounds.
Insolent disregard of propriety, "hybris," was the quality most denounced by the early moralizing poets.
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