| 释义 |
self-importantˌself-imˈportant adjective   - As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.
- He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir".
- For some self-important reason, he felt it necessary to examine my action.
- He was a choleric, self-important little man.
- More self-indulgent self-important twaddle, the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press, his own myth.
- Seeing beyond overt status People become self-important to counteract and to attack the fear that they are insignificant.
- The chief inspector suddenly understood that the historian's self-important but indomitable spirit was housed in a broken body.
- The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love.
- The other was older, tall as Trollope and had a surly self-important air about her.
- Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.
someone who thinks they are better than other people► snob someone who thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class: · Since going to university he'd become a snob, embarrassed by his family.· I don't want to sound like a snob, but I found the decor vulgar. ► snobbish someone who is snobbish thinks that they are better than people from a lower class, so that they will not be friendly with them or do the things they do: · Some people find her snobbish, but she's really just shy.· his snobbish attitude to soap operas on TVsnobbish about: · She's very snobbish about people who live in the suburbs. ► stuck-up informal someone who is stuck-up thinks that they are better than other people, and behaves in a proud, unfriendly way: · The children who go to that school are a bit stuck-up.· a pompous, stuck-up little man ► pompous someone who is pompous tries to sound important, especially by using very long or formal words: · She found him pompous and annoying.· The headteacher gave a pompous speech about 'the values of learning'. ► self-important thinking you are much more important than you really are: · As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.· He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir". ► haughty someone who is haughty behaves in a proud and very unfriendly way, as if they think other people are completely unimportant: · People thought of him as being haughty and difficult to talk to.· Jessica turned away with a haughty look on her face. ► snotty informal rude and unfriendly because you think you are better than other people: · The hotel receptionist was a bit snotty to me this morning.· a bunch of snotty rich kids behaving in a way that shows you think you are more important than other people – used to show disapproval:  a self-important pompous little man—self-importance noun [uncountable]—self-importantly adverb |