haughty: [16] To be haughty is to be ‘above oneself’, or, to put it another way, to be ‘on one’s high horse’. For etymologically, haughty means simply ‘high’. It is an alteration of an earlier, now dead English adjective haught, which was borrowed from Old French haut ‘high’, a descendant of Latin altus (whence English altitude). => altitude
haughty (adj.)
"proud and disdainful," 1520s, a redundant extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" by addition of -y (2) on model of might/mighty, naught/naughty, etc. Middle English also had hautif in this sense (mid-15c., from Old French hautif), and hautein "proud, haughty, arrogant; presumptuous" (c. 1300), from Old French hautain. Related: Haughtily.
实用例句
1. He gave me a haughty look and walked away.
他向我摆出傲慢的表情后走开.
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2. They were displeased with her haughty airs.
他们讨厌她高傲的派头.
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3. He is haughty to us.
他对我们很傲慢.
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4. A haughty girl is always unpopular at school.
骄傲的女孩子在学校常常不受人欢迎.
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5. " Wen - wan, don't tell him,'said Hsin - mei in a haughty, jealous tone.
