ADJ-GRADED 自视更虔诚的;自命清高的 If you describe someone as holier-than-thou, you disapprove of them because they seem to believe that they are more religious or have better moral qualities than anyone else.
He has always sounded holier-than-thou. 他说话总是显得自命清高。
...those with holier-than-thou attitudes. 那些自以为占据道德高地的人
He has always sounded holier-than-thou. 他说话总是显得自命清高。
I think they will surpass us unless we get off our "self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitudes" about our place in the world. 我看他们将超越我们,除非我们不再用咱们“自觉得是&自命狷介的立场”去对待咱们活着界中的位置。
An epidemic of holier-than-thou fiscal virtue is spreading throughout Europe and is fast transforming a series of uncoordinated fiscal retrenchments into a euro-wide contraction with dire implications for growth and employment. 一场假仁假义的财政美德疫情正在整个欧洲地区蔓延,并迅速将一系列不协调的财政紧缩,转变成一场横扫欧元区的萎缩,这将对增长和就业造成可怕的影响。
I could put with his specific criticisms if it were not for his holier-than-thou attitude. 要不是他那假仁假义的态度,我是能够容忍他那些具体的批评的。
Most people find holier-than-thou actions in others hard to accept. 大多数人认为别人自命不凡的样子难以接受。
What if she had asked you, miss holier-than-thou? 如果你是问的你,伪善小姐?
It annoys me when Philip adopts that holier-than-thou expression with his sons; he forgets that he was just as bad as them when hew as their age. 菲利普对他儿子们采用伪装虔诚的表情使我很生气,他忘了自己在他们那个年纪时也一样调皮捣蛋。
What I find most abominable in our politicians is that, even when their hands are stained with blood, they invariably adopt a holier-than-thou attitude. 我想,我们那些政客最讨厌的就是纵使双手血迹斑斑,还是千篇一律的摆出一副道貌岸然的嘴脸。
I'm tired of his holier-than-thou attitude toward me. 我厌倦了他在我面前自命不凡的态度。