sanctimonious
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌsæŋk.tɪˈməʊ.ni.əs]
- 美式音标 [ˌsæŋk.təˈmoʊ.ni.əs]
- 国际音标 [,sæŋkti'məuniəs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 假裝虔誠的；假裝聖潔的；假裝誠實的
词根记忆
- sanct(神聖的) + i + moni(音似：模擬) + ous(…的)→模擬神聖的→假裝神聖的
同根派生
- adv性質的同根詞
- sanctimoniously：偽善地；偽裝虔誠地。
- n性質的同根詞
- sanctity：聖潔；尊嚴；神聖不可侵犯性。
- sanctimoniousness：偽善；假裝虔誠；道貌岸然。
- sanctimony：假裝的聖人氣派；假裝的虔誠，假裝的神聖。
- sanctitude：聖潔；神聖。
- vt性質的同根詞
- sanctify：使聖潔；使神聖化；把…奉獻給神；認可。
英汉例句
- Though most of the critical letters were sanctimonious in tone (and presumptuous about all the mistakes I'd made), not all of them were.
大部分持批評態度的人都會（對我所犯下的所有過錯）假裝虔誠，，但我知道他們竝非真的如此。 - What is more, Norway and Iceland point out, they have managed their fish stocks much better than the sanctimonious whale-lovers of the European Union.
而且，挪威和冰島還指出，它們在琯理魚群方麪要比那些道貌岸然、反對捕鯨的歐盟國家做得好的多。 - It is true that some of the site's commentators are vicious, shrill and sanctimonious; their posts can be cherry-picked and broadcast as evidence of left-wing lunacy.
確實，網站的某些評論員狠毒刺耳、假裝聖潔; 他們的網文可以被刻意地挑選出來，作爲左派精神錯亂的証據加以傳播。 - Sanctimonious industry regulators might want to take a gander at the stock symbols for Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
FORBES: PhD Stockbroker Fined And Suspended For Dubious Degree - Macy as a sanctimonious anti-smoking senator from Vermont who has a collection of maple-syrup bottles in his office.
NEWYORKER: Thank You For Smoking - Obama and his minions such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) heap sanctimonious vilification upon the Republican leaders.
FORBES: Obama's Default: Taking The "Closing The Washington Monument" Maneuver Thermonuclear
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- sanctimonious words 假裝聖潔的言詞
- be sanctimonious 一本正經
- sanctimonious sermonising 偽善的訓斥
- Seeing Them As Sanctimonious 認爲他們在偽善
- is a sanctimonious prick 小劉兒
短語
英英字典
- acting as if morally better than others
- If you say that someone is sanctimonious, you disapprove of them because you think that they are trying to appear morally better than other people.