pontificate

英[pɒn'tɪfɪkeɪt] 美[pɑːn'tɪfɪkeɪt]
  • v. 武断地或自封为权威地谈论某事物
  • n. (教皇的)职位或任期
pontification pontificated pontificated pontificating pontificates
GRE

详细释义

Noun:
  1. the government of the Roman Catholic Church

Verb:
  1. administer a pontifical office

  2. talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner;

    "The new professor always pontificates"

双语例句

1. Pope Formosus died after a pontificate of four and a half years.
教皇福尔摩苏斯上任四年半后去世。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Did he pontificate about the responsibilities of a good citizen?
他有没有教训过他人关于当个好公民的责任问题?

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3. Politicians like to pontificate about falling standards.
政客喜欢自以为是地谈论准则的废弛。

来自辞典例句

4. People who pontificate are usually unholy bores.
以命令的口气说话的人通常都是邪恶的无赖.

来自辞典例句

5. Aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that?
你不惭愧 吗 ?你那样的夸夸其谈,装腔作势?

来自电影对白

    用作动词 (v.)
    1. Politicians like to pontificate the reason about falling standards.
      政治家喜欢自大地表示下降标准的原因。
    2. He sat there pontificating about the legal system although it was clear that he knew very little about it.
      他坐在那儿发表他对法制的高论，虽然他对此一窍不通。
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. His was the second-longest pontificate.
      他任职教宗时间是第二长的。
    2. The central meaning of his pontificate is to restore papal authority
      他任职教皇的中心意图就是要恢复教皇权力

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