pontificate

pontificate[pɔn'tifikit; -keit]

• n.
  • 教皇(或主教)的职位(或任期)
• vi.
  • 执行教皇(或主教)职务(尤指主持弥撒)
  • 装出教皇(或主教)的神气；发表武断的意见：

    He always pontificates about the evils of modern society.

    他经常对现代社会的弊病大发议论。

  • 自以为是，自命不凡
• vt.
  • 自负地说；武断地说：

    in a pontificating manner

    以武断的神态

• 变形:

  vi.pontificated.pontificating

• come under pressure
• etypical
• shock-workers
• high-lives
• retinal pigment
• geg
• meningococcic
• foot-candle
• demeritorious
• fibrosarcomas
• bradyphrenias
• the mass of people / the population / workers etc
• dekeing
• bornanes
• total solids
• diving petrel
• narcotising
• robot
• durmasts
• white whale
• pteridologies
• land agents
• bolognas
• globalises
• branchiostegal rays
• jura
• bow oneself out
• the crawl
• alodial
• sinitics
• gas phototube
• accommodation bill
• dine on/upon
• embarcaderoes
• would rather (或 sooner)
• outsparkles
• myopy
• MacArthur, Douglas
• digital counter
• frizettes
• by courtesy
• dandelion
• best bets
• thrust/force sth down sb’s throat
• undertook
• ammoniations
• cypresses
• plum-pudding stone
• guestship
• calcrete
• cryogenic gyro
• chorically
• well-formednesses
• Melanesian
• in the realm of
• regattas
• cuttling
• edgings
• dispersion medium
• interreligiously
• push bike
• gas-filled radiation counter
• prick down
• hiddenness
• interruptedly
• tekke
• TECO
• macroorganisms
• shift key
• beautyberry
• amons
• as mad as a wet hen
• wet cells
• （it） stands to reason
• lots and lots of
• jejuneness
• engulfments
• in（或 at）one fell swoop
• stagnant
• a nail in the coffin
• flog a dead horse
• watch out
• public administration
• methodist
• bountree
• Laibach
• pop out
• all be it
• bite back (at sb/sth)
• indexically
• cheesier
• lap sth↔up
• Lynwood
• intolerantly
• district judge
• output resistance
• house-sat
• road pen
• least talk most work
• Rayleigh atmosphere