hauteur

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Various explanations are offered for Obama's unfeeling hauteur and Europe's consequent heartache.
對奧巴馬的冷酷傲慢，以及給歐洲帶來的傷心，有多方面的解釋。
A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features, but he said not a word, and Elizabeth, though blaming herself for her own weakness, could not go on.
一陣傲慢的陰影罩上了他的臉，可是他一句話也沒有說。伊麗莎白說不下去了，不過她心里卻在埋怨自己軟弱。
In those days everything from furniture to festivity was designed to be enjoyed by the many, so that whatever of pomp or magnificence there might have been did not savour of hauteur.
在那些日子里，從家具到節(jié)慶，一切都是為眾人的享用而設(shè)計，因而無論有多么富麗堂皇，都沒有倨傲的氣息。

But she held her head high, flaring her nostrils a little, appraising the room with a residual trace of her anxious hauteur.
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Asana, daughter of Ya Namina, my grandfather's senior wife: a magnificent hauteur flowed like river water from the mother's veins through the daughter's.
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At the end of it, Wainewright emerges from his appalling hardships with a measure of genuine dignity that goes deeper than the affected hauteur of the dandy.
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a formal and unfriendly way of behaving that suggests that the person thinks they are better than other people

You can use hauteur to describe behaviour which you think is proud and arrogant.