self-appointed

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌself.əˈpɔɪn.tɪd]
• 美式音标 [ˌself.əˈpɔɪn.t̬ɪd]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 自封的；自己作主的

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• Some critics deride the group as self-appointed food police.
  一些批評人士嘲諷這個組織爲“自封的食品警察”。
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• As people begin to suspect that a military stalemate may last months, some are worrying that the self-appointed council may entrench itself with no accountability.
  正儅人們開始懷疑軍事僵持會持續數月時，一些人擔心自己任命的委員會會鞏固自身、不負任何責任。
• It encourages clientilism, where self-appointed “community leaders” try to grab as much as possible from the public cake, in theory for their constituents, but in practice often for themselves.
  它助長了食客主義。 那些自封的“團躰領袖”竭力從公共事物中攫取最大利益，名義上是爲了其成員，實際上通常是爲了他們自己。

原聲例句

• The news media and self-appointed ethics "watchdog" groups observe how lobbying is carried out.
• Still,Ted Gioia calls Alan Lomax the self-appointed "custodian of America's music traditions."

權威例句

• "It's a smear campaign by these self-appointed consumer advocates and plaintiffs' attorneys, " says Curt D.
  FORBES: Souring On Sweeteners
• Even the father of theme parks proved no match for the earth's self-appointed guardians.
  ECONOMIST: The ski business

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• behaving as if you have responsibility or authority but without having been chosen by other people

柯林斯英英字典

• A self-appointed leader or ruler has taken the position of leader or ruler without anyone else asking them or choosing them to have it.