Overbearing

(a.) Overpowering; subduing; repressing.

(a.) Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.

校对:鲁珀特

• His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• His face was very pleasant; he looked high but not arrogant, manly but not overbearing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr Wrayburn, at least I know very well that it would be idle to set myself against you in insolent words or overbearing manners. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He was clever, bad-tempered, and overbearing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was her overbearing WILL that insisted. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• How those three proud, overbearing brothers humbled themselves before me! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I tell you what, Mr Venus; it comes to this; I must be overbearing with Boffin, or I shall fly into several pieces. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

校对:伍德罗