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    The noun of supercilious: the quality of behaving as though other people matter less than you do. It names the attitude itself, so you can talk about it as a thing — the superciliousness of the staff, a hint of superciliousness in her voice, 'I could not stand his superciliousness'. It is uncountable: no 'a superciliousness', no plural. It shows up most when someone is complaining about, or analysing, a person's manner — a review of a restaurant, a character study in a novel, a complaint about how a clerk treated you. Like the whole family, it is formal and mostly written; in speech people would say 'his attitude' or 'the way he looks down on everyone'. Be aware it is a long word even for native speakers, and a heavy one to drop into a sentence — writers often prefer the adjective and the sentence around it.

    傲慢、目中無人的態度(指那種瞧不起人的姿態本身,不可數)

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組成supercilious + -ness. The ending -ness turns an adjective into the name of that quality: kind → kindness, dark → darkness, happy → happiness.

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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

superciliousnessnoun

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    The state or quality of being supercilious.

    • ...and externally more resembling her mother than any of her sisters, though she lacked Lady Anne's commanding height and that cast of countenance which indicated powerful intellect, but was unfortunately mingled with pride and superciliousness, which was the extreme reverse of Mary's expression.
    • His little eyes glittered like mica discs with curiosity, though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness.

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