Officious

(a.) Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.

(a.) Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.

(a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.

赫克托整理

• But their officious inquisitiveness was not gratified. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In his absence she was a still personage, but with him the most officious, fidgety little body possible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• You are rather disposed to call his interference officious? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I should think my attendance must seem strange, officious? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life, WON'T help me here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• How dare you go and poke your officious nose into my family affairs? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Elizabeth's misery increased, at such unnecessary, such officious attention! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I was in the mood for being useful, or at least officious, I think, for I now drew near him again. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

编辑:洛娜