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单词 hubris
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Definition of hubris in English:

hubris

noun ˈhjuːbrɪsˈ(h)jubrəs
mass noun
  • 1Excessive pride or self-confidence.

    傲慢,自大

    the self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a preliminary, it should be said that hubris, hysteria, big egos and love of a fight were widely distributed on all sides.
    • I should have known that such hubris would rebound.
    • If it points to the mind of the artist it becomes lost in solipsistic musings that can only feed the artist's vanity and hubris.
    • ‘I think that's too strong, but not for Peter,’ he says, laughing fondly at such hubris.
    • His hubris is unequaled and his ego is unequaled, and he absolutely takes no advice.
    • What gets up our noses is the brass-bound arrogance and hubris of the pirates who now run your system.
    • The principal cause of ruination is wanton excess through the sin of hubris.
    • The obsession with American voters was a pathetic act of collective media hubris and vain self-importance.
    • Yet in a perverse way, this hubris by the Senate's more potent conservative bloc compounds the value of any dissent.
    • They encapsulate the pride and hubris of the nation's bright, new, free market future.
    • The first is professional hubris: doctors were arrogant and unaccountable.
    • As a Christian I am well aware that pride and hubris precede a fall.
    • A more modern term for hubris, for Kirk's monstrous ego, is narcissism.
    • To brand it as arbitrary is a haughty act of intellectual hubris, thin in substance and contemptuous of our ancestors.
    • Driven by hubris, his judgment skewed by arrogance, he had imagined his power extended over the very forces of nature.
    • Military arrogance and political hubris put Germany on the path to a war she could have won only if these expectations had proved true.
    • But here his own hubris, his own kind of arrogance, in how to handle this matter prevailed.
    • His enemies prefer to see him as a victim, once again, of his own arrogance, of hubris, and an addiction to taking himself too seriously.
    • Arrogance, hubris, blind patriotism, and good old fashioned fear are our real enemy!
    • It was a war the republic entered, and stayed in, because of hubris.
    Synonyms
    arrogance, conceit, conceitedness, haughtiness, pride, vanity, self-importance, self-conceit, pomposity, superciliousness, feeling of superiority
    French hauteur
    informal uppitiness, big-headedness
    1. 1.1 (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
      (希腊悲剧)(最终导致惩罚的)傲睨神明,狂妄野心
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A brave move but, as we all know, hubris is followed by nemesis.
      • Yet, in this case there is no introduction to Marsyas's character and the nature of his hubris.
      • The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
      • Throughout the genre, since its beginning, nemesis has clobbered hubris.
      • The arc of the members' lives follows precisely the classic Greek model of destiny, hubris and nemesis.

Origin

Greek.

Definition of hubris in US English:

hubris

nounˈ(h)jubrəsˈ(h)yo͞obrəs
  • 1Excessive pride or self-confidence.

    傲慢,自大

    the self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a Christian I am well aware that pride and hubris precede a fall.
    • The obsession with American voters was a pathetic act of collective media hubris and vain self-importance.
    • His enemies prefer to see him as a victim, once again, of his own arrogance, of hubris, and an addiction to taking himself too seriously.
    • A more modern term for hubris, for Kirk's monstrous ego, is narcissism.
    • I should have known that such hubris would rebound.
    • The principal cause of ruination is wanton excess through the sin of hubris.
    • As a preliminary, it should be said that hubris, hysteria, big egos and love of a fight were widely distributed on all sides.
    • But here his own hubris, his own kind of arrogance, in how to handle this matter prevailed.
    • ‘I think that's too strong, but not for Peter,’ he says, laughing fondly at such hubris.
    • Driven by hubris, his judgment skewed by arrogance, he had imagined his power extended over the very forces of nature.
    • If it points to the mind of the artist it becomes lost in solipsistic musings that can only feed the artist's vanity and hubris.
    • It was a war the republic entered, and stayed in, because of hubris.
    • Yet in a perverse way, this hubris by the Senate's more potent conservative bloc compounds the value of any dissent.
    • The first is professional hubris: doctors were arrogant and unaccountable.
    • Military arrogance and political hubris put Germany on the path to a war she could have won only if these expectations had proved true.
    • To brand it as arbitrary is a haughty act of intellectual hubris, thin in substance and contemptuous of our ancestors.
    • Arrogance, hubris, blind patriotism, and good old fashioned fear are our real enemy!
    • They encapsulate the pride and hubris of the nation's bright, new, free market future.
    • His hubris is unequaled and his ego is unequaled, and he absolutely takes no advice.
    • What gets up our noses is the brass-bound arrogance and hubris of the pirates who now run your system.
    Synonyms
    arrogance, conceit, conceitedness, haughtiness, pride, vanity, self-importance, self-conceit, pomposity, superciliousness, feeling of superiority
    1. 1.1 (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
      (希腊悲剧)(最终导致惩罚的)傲睨神明,狂妄野心
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A brave move but, as we all know, hubris is followed by nemesis.
      • Yet, in this case there is no introduction to Marsyas's character and the nature of his hubris.
      • The arc of the members' lives follows precisely the classic Greek model of destiny, hubris and nemesis.
      • The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
      • Throughout the genre, since its beginning, nemesis has clobbered hubris.

Origin

Greek.

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