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发音：[prɪˈzʌmptʃuəs]
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例句：
- If we describe someone as presumptuous, we mean that person is arrogant by showing a lack of proper social reserve or modesty.
- The universe is so big that it would be pretty presumptuous to have a hard and fast conclusion about everything we humans can perceive.
- It is presumptuous to assume that we are worthy of special attention from advanced species in the Milky Way.
- Stone told Reuters in an interview when the show opened in March that he didn’t want to be “presumptuous” in even thinking about any Tony awards and was more relieved that audiences understood the humor.
- A modest woman, a committed Mormon, she loved books, had always conjured up stories, but had previously thought the idea of writing anything herself would be presumptuous.
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解释：
- Presumptuous这个单词为形容词，其表示“arrogant or showing a lack of proper social modesty”这一含义，即“自大的/自负的/冒昧的/放肆的/自以为是的”，与arrogant/overconfident/pretentious这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Clinton wished not to seem presumptuous and risk an embarrassing defeat in California that would tarnish her path-breaking achievement.（克林顿希望不要显得放肆，冒着在加利福尼亚遭遇尴尬失败的风险，这将玷污她的开创性成就。）
—Politics - For years, there has been a presumptuous idea in university literary departments that a novelist’s intentions are irrelevant and that the last person who can explain a work’s meaning is its author.（多年来，大学文学系一直有一种自以为是的想法，即小说家的意图无关紧要，最后一个能够解释作品含义的人是作者。）
—Arts and Culture - The football players thought the headline was presumptuous and made them sound as if they assumed they would win the World Series. (足球运动员们认为标题是冒昧的，让他们听起来好像他们认为自己会赢得世界大赛。）
—Sports - As to the impact of the new research, Dr. Dalen said, “I think it would be presumptuous to assume that it would settle anything, given how contentious the field is.”（至于这项新研究的影响，达伦博士说：“我认为，鉴于该领域的争议性，假设它会解决任何问题会显得自大。）
—Science
