[每日] hubris (n) 傲慢
Word of the Day (Thursday October 30, 2008)
hubris \HYOO-bruhs\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/8c50E
Overbearing pride or presumption.
During his long tenure in the financial world, Friedman has watched
dozens of his competitors' businesses killed by hubris born of
success rather than by unsound business decisions or adverse market
conditions.
-- Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success
This is the actor's hubris, to imagine the world possessed of a
single, avid eye fixed solely and always on him.
-- John Banville, Eclipse
With dizzying hubris, Shelley elevated the vocation of the poet
above that of priest and statesman.
-- Peter Gay, Pleasure Wars
Hubris comes from Greek hybris, "excessive pride, wanton violence."
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