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

• 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。
• 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。
• A stupid, officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking.
  破坏他人成功者通过干扰而破坏他人成功的愚蠢的、好管闲事的人。
• There are three officious institutes and local groups and centers of Marxism research in Russia now.
  现在全俄已经有三个非官方的马克思主义研究机构及各地的研究小组和中心。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We is tired of is push around by officious civil servant.
  我们厌恶那些把我们支来支去的公务员。