单词 | sententious |
释义 | sen·ten·tious /senˈtenʃəs/ adjective formal GOOD/MORALtelling people how they should behave – used to show disapproval 说教的,劝诫的〔含贬义〕 sententious remarks 说教的话 —sententiously adverbExamples from the Corpussententious• It was quiet, reminiscent, a little sententious.• Perhaps her last remark was a bit sententious?• On its own this reads like a perfectly ordinary youthful Europeanized sententious romantic flourish.Origin sententious (1400-1500) Latin sententiosus “full of meaning”, from sententia; → SENTENCE1sen·ten·tious adjectiveChineseSyllable telling should – how to used they people Corpus behave |
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