officious

英 [əˈfɪʃəs]

美 [əˈfɪʃəs]

adj.  爱指手画脚的; 爱发号施令的

GRE法律

BNC.33087 / COCA.27746

牛津词典

adj.

• 爱指手画脚的；爱发号施令的
  too ready to tell people what to do or to use the power you have to give orders
  1. a nasty officious little man
     讨厌、好管闲事的家伙

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 好管闲事的；爱指手画脚的
  If you describe someone asofficious, you are critical of them because they are eager to tell people what to do when you think they should not.
  1. They wouldn't welcome any officious interference from the police...
     他们不会欢迎任何来自警方的横加干涉。
  2. When people put on uniforms, their attitude becomes more confident and their manner more officious.
     人们穿上制服后会信心倍增，也更爱管闲事了。

英英释义

adj

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  1. an interfering old woman
  2. bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself
  3. busy about other people's business
  Synonym:interferingmeddlesomemeddlingbusybusybodied

双语例句

• An officious little man in a uniform told us to go away.
  一个穿制服的爱管闲事的小个子让我滚开。
• Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation became IBM ( International Business Machines), while Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web became Yahoo, an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
  计算列表纪录公司更名为IBM&国际商业机器公司，杰瑞的网络指南更名为雅虎（Yahoo），这是另一种非官方层次化数据库的首字母缩写。
• I moved becasue I can't put up with that officious landlady any longer.
  我搬家是因为我再也受不了那个好管闲事的女房东了。
• A stupid, officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking.
  破坏他人成功者通过干扰而破坏他人成功的愚蠢的、好管闲事的人。
• And when those officious women's magazines kept telling me that my low self-esteem wasnt helping depression matters at all, I got myself a pretty haircut, bought some fancy makeup and a nice dress.
  在那些好管闲事的妇女杂志不断告诉我，低自尊无助于忧郁症时，我去剪了个漂亮的发型，买了时髦的化妆品和一件美丽的洋装。
• He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving. I, a university student's life goal: Peasant woman, mountain spring, a little field.
  他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。我，一个大学生的人生奋斗目标：农妇，山泉，有点田。
• But because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim.
  而是因为教授及其崇拜者们一味地把它们弄得面目全非，而且还殷勤地献上其本身并未要求的赞扬。
• If the bosses are rude or officious with customers, then employees will be, too.
  如果老板对客户鲁莽无礼或说三道四，那么雇员也会如此。
• The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention.
  事实上是因为，你对于殷勤多礼的客套，已经感到腻烦。
• Pick an malign malign spirit of eyebrow a agreeable half-day a smile: "In my image, appear you is it one that favor an officious person and how tin saved such a person?"
  好半天，挑眉邪魅一笑：“在我形象中，似乎你并不是一个喜欢多管闲事的人，怎么会救了这样一个人？”