hubris

英 ['hjuːbrɪs] 美 ['hjuːbrɪs]

• n. 傲慢；骄傲

英英释义

Noun:

1. overbearing pride or presumption

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. If that is the case,China might be able to avoid the pitfall of hubris.
   如果事实如此，中国也许能避免高傲自大的缺点。

经典引文

• Hubris against the essentially divine order of Nature would be followed by its appropriate nemesis.

  出自： Aldous Huxley

• By what hubris do we consider ourselves any bigger in a universe of such vastness?

  出自： S. J. Gould