pontificating
英 [pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪŋ]
美 [pɑːnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪŋ]
v. 自以为是地谈论; 目空一切地议论
pontificate的现在分词
柯林斯词典
- VERB 自负地谈论；武断地说话
If someone pontificates about something, they state their opinions as if they are the only correct ones and nobody could possibly argue against them.- Politicians like to pontificate about falling standards.
政客喜欢自以为是地谈论准则的废弛。
- Politicians like to pontificate about falling standards.
- N-COUNT 教皇任期
The pontificate of a pope is the period of time during which he is pope.- Pope Formosus died after a pontificate of four and a half years.
教皇福尔摩苏斯上任四年半后去世。
- Pope Formosus died after a pontificate of four and a half years.
The verb is pronounced /pɒn'tɪfɪkeɪt/. The noun is pronounced /pɒn'tɪfɪkət/. 动词读作 /pɒn'tɪfɪkeɪt/。名词读作 /pɒn'tɪfɪkət/。
双语例句
- Best supporting actor: Let's be honest: One man whose entire year has been a story about other people's interests is the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. For all his posturing and pontificating, he was never running the show.
最佳男配角：实事求是的说，过去一年里有个人的境遇一直关系的却是其他人的利益，这就是洪都拉斯遭驱逐总统塞拉亚。 - Oxford University is the oldest university in the English-speaking world: professors have been pontificating and students have been snoozing since the 12th century.
牛津是英语世界里最古老的大学：早在十二世纪，教授们就开始在台上威严地授课，而过去的学生们在台下偷偷打盹。 - Start seriously courting the journalists, tastemakers, and celebrities that are using and/ or pontificating about G+.
开始认真对待那些正在使用或是对Google+发表一些言论的记者、潮人和名人们。 - Grice is a strategist who's happier quoting from history books than pontificating on the future direction of the FTSE.
格赖斯更乐于援引历史书籍，而不是武断地判言富时指数的未来方向。 - He sat there pontificating about the legal system although it was clear that he knew very little.
他坐在那儿发表他对法制的高论，虽然他对此一窍不通。