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

• 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。
• When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.
  最近我刚从国外回来，一个过份殷勤的关员把我当作了一个走私者。
• 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？”
• She liked them because they were not officious.
  她喜欢他们，因为他们不爱管闲事。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。