cocksure

英 [ˌkɒkˈʃʊə(r)]

美 [ˌkɑːkˈʃʊr]

adj.  过分自信的; 自高自大的; 自以为是的

BNC.46273 / COCA.31329

牛津词典

adj.

• 过分自信的；自高自大的；自以为是的
  confident in a way that is annoying to other people and that they might find offensive

柯林斯词典

• 过分自信的;自负的
  Someone who iscocksureis so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people.

英英释义

adj

• marked by excessive confidence
  1. an arrogant and cocksure materialist
  2. so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
  3. the less he knows the more positive he gets
  Synonym:overconfidentpositive

双语例句

• Don't be too cocksure and take things for granted.
  不要太过自信，硬以为是这样。
• Cocksure, she is cocksure, but uneasy.
  她的确很自信，但不安闲。
• He was an arrogant and cocksure materialist.
  他是一个狂妄的自信满满的唯物论者。
• He is too bloody cocksure about everything.
  他对於每一件事都过於自信。
• She becomes cocksure, she puts all her passion and energy and years of her life into some effort or assertion, without ever listening for the denial which she ought to take into count.
  她如公鸡一般自信，她把她所有的热情、精力和时间投入到某项事业或追求中，而不倾听那些她理应考虑的反对意见。
• Beware the cocksure interim who arrives declaring that he has seen it all before, and knows "exactly how to deal with a company/ team like this".
  当心那些过分自信的过渡经理们他们一来就宣称，以前见过很多这种情况，“完全知道该如何应对这样的公司或团队”。
• He was a plump, cocksure man.
  他是个胖乎乎的自以为是的人。
• He was so cocksure that she would call him first.
  他确信她会先打电话给他。
• Although it happened in hardly rampant Japan, the wow bow, as one humiliated US blogger called it, somehow captured the mood of a less cocksure America coming to terms with a puffed-up Asia.
  虽然这发生在不怎么神气活现的日本，但一名感到羞辱的美国博客作者所称的这种令人错愕之鞠，在某种程度上反映出不太自信的美国开始向傲气十足的亚洲妥协的气氛。
• I have sometimes been led actually to change my mind as a result of this kind of imaginary dialogue, and, short of this, I have frequently found myself growing less dogmatic and cocksure through realizing the possible reasonableness of a hypothetical opponent.
  有时，由于这种假想的对话，结果，我真的改变了我的想法。而有时虽然未能真的改变看法，我也常发现自己因认识到假想对手可能有道理而变得不那么武断或自以为是了。