| 释义 |
‖ hubris|ˈhjuːbrɪs|
[a. Gr. ὕβρις (cf. hybris).]
Presumption, orig. towards the gods; pride, excessive self-confidence.
1884Daily News 28 Oct. (Ware), Boys of good family, who have always been toadied, and never been checked, who are full of health and high spirits, develop what Academic slang knows as hubris, a kind of high-flown insolence. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 272 So confident indeed did I become that I began to join in the scholarly chuckle at the vainglorious and foolhardy man—was ever a purer case of hubris? 1924G. B. Shaw Saint Joan v. 60 You have stained yourself with the sin of pride. The old Greek tragedy is rising among us. It is the chastisement of hubris. 1950A. Huxley Themes & Variations 259 The Greeks..knew very well that hubris against the essentially divine order of Nature would be followed by its appropriate nemesis. a1963C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 3 Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods, Shun Hubris. 1965Listener 23 Sept. 449/2 There they learned morality and conduct; the virtues of nobility and the golden mean and the menace of hubris. 1971Country Life 11 Mar. 541/1 Not much in the way of punishment for hubris will be seen falling on the heads of the publicity-maniacs. |