peremptory

pronunciation

UK [pəˈremptəri]word uk audio image

US [pəˈrɛmptəri] word us audio image

  • adj.
    断然的
    不容置辩的
    傲慢的
    专横的

Word Origin

peremptory 强硬的,专横的

per-,整个的,-empt,拿,带,词源同exempt.assumptive.即整个的拿走,引申词义强硬的,专横的。

Example

1. Peremptory silence no longer works .
无法再强制人们保持沉默了。
2. He was neither overly worried nor briskly peremptory .
他既不是过分地忧心,也不是盛气凛凛地专横。
3. His suspensions may have been ad hoc and peremptory , but he was right to think the bank should not judge its success by the sums it moves .
他中止现金流的行为也许很专横,但他认为世行不应以捐助量论成功是对的。
4. I was puzzled that so many companies seemed to be able to issue peremptory edicts to their managers to reduce costs , or headcount , and see these edicts fulfilled .
当时我很困惑,为何有那么多公司似乎能够不容置辩地命令管理人员削减成本或裁员,并看着这些命令得到贯彻执行。
5. Not even the peremptory chopping off of part of mr. shin 's middle finger - an event that warrants only two paragraphs in mr. harden 's parade of horrors - was enough to set mr. shin 's escape plans in motion .
即便是申东赫的中指被残忍地砍去部分在哈德成篇的恐怖记叙中仅容两段的这一事件也不足以让申东赫起了逃跑的计划。

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