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

• 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。
• 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。
• She liked them because they were not officious.
  她喜欢他们，因为他们不爱管闲事。
• He is a harsh man, at once pompous and officious.
  他是个严酷的人，既自负又爱管闲事。
• 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。
• Because he had no real authority, the clerk acted in an officious way.
  由于这个职员没有实权，他只好权宜行事。
• The phrase is also used against people who are viewed as officious or intermeddling in someone else's affairs.
  还有一种用法，可以对好插手别人事情的人说，意思是还是管管你自己吧。
• 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。
• The Relations among Personal Strivings, Personality Traits and Subjective Well-being in Undergraduates; He had a reputation for being politically officious and self-serving.
  大学生个人奋斗、人格特质与主观幸福感的关系他因在政治上爱管闲事和个人奋斗而出名。
• 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。