英
[pɒn'tɪfɪkeɪt]
美
[pɑːn'tɪfɪkeɪt]
- v. 武断地或自封为权威地谈论某事物
- n. (教皇的)职位或任期
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pontificate的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：
英英释义
Noun:
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the government of the Roman Catholic Church
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administer a pontifical office
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talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner;
"The new professor always pontificates"
pontificate的用法和样例：
例句
用作动词 (v.)
- Politicians like to pontificate the reason about falling standards.
政治家喜欢自大地表示下降标准的原因。 - He sat there pontificating about the legal system although it was clear that he knew very little about it.
他坐在那儿发表他对法制的高论，虽然他对此一窍不通。
用作名词 (n.)
- His was the second-longest pontificate.
他任职教宗时间是第二长的。 - The central meaning of his pontificate is to restore papal authority
他任职教皇的中心意图就是要恢复教皇权力
经典引文
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In the closing years of the pontificate of Leo XIII.
出自： A. N. Wilson -
A didactic voice began pontificating about the ecology of the Po delta.
出自： M. Dibdin
